How did you find Chud? - Page 2

I too was a convert from AICN. It was late '03, and the news that Christopher Lee wouldn't be appearing in ROTK (or something related) sent me on to CHUD. I lurked faithfully for a couple of years, finally becoming a messageboard member after discovering the LOST talkbacks.

I rarely visit AICN now.

I went to the web address provided in the commercials for the first After Dark Films Horrorfest, looking for info on the 'fest. There was precious little there. Just as a goof, since I rarely follow links, I followed one to Creature-Corner.com (which, for those of you new to the CHUD boards, used to sort of have its own address & site). There was more info posted by Alex Riviello on CC than on the After Dark site itself. I then started lurking the Boards, saw how great a job Al did with the content, & the rest is history. There are few I know IRL that I can talk to about horror films with the depth I do here, and that keeps me coming back. That and Tim's bad puns. Always been a sucker for a bad pun.

God told me about this place, via a message in my Alpha Bits. That was around 2003. Joined the boards in '04. Finally posted a meaningful post sometime in '07, but it was an accident.

Like Iggy, I found this place via Creature Corner. I'd check out the Corner for horror movie info, which would usually link back to CHUD in one form or another. Eventually, when the first rumblings of the first Spider-Man flick started, CHUD had a few pics as well as comments of the costumes (yes, Goblin DOES look like a Power Ranger!). From there, I started checking out the forums, lurking for a couple of years until I took the plunge and joined my fellow chewers back in '06. By then, sadly, Creature Corner sort of imploded, and was absorbed by CHUD proper (and boy, was that an ugly spiral. My hats off to everyone that kept CC afloat during the rough times!).

Bad puns, Ig? Moi?

And there's been nothing of worth since. *wistful sigh*

I woke up sprawled on the floor of a cheap, completely trashed Vegas motel room, naked and unkempt, with no memory of how I'd gotten there. I was overwhelmed by the combination of the stale taste of cigarettes, the bitter burning of hours-old vomit on the back of my throat, and the queasiness of a stomach full of straight whiskey and egg & jelly sandwiches. The room was in shambles, the mirror cracked, bottles and cans littering the floor along with used condoms, cigarette butts, and Tijuana Bibles. I groaned and rolled onto my back, shielding my eyes from the blinking lights fighting through the drawn blinds. I wasn't sure if it was day or night. I realized I was trash, that I'd wasted my life in vain and pointless pursuits. I had no friends I hadn't ruthlessly betrayed for a cheap cocktail waitress, no family member I hadn't gleefully exploited to get my hands on more cash to return to my rapscallious ways, no bridge left I hadn't burned. This was the end, there was nowhere left to turn. No redemption.

But then-

I noticed something out of the corner of my bleary eye, resting on the motel bureau. Yes. Of course. It was so beautiful, so righteous and true. Fighting away the hangover, I pulled myself up onto my own two feet and stumbled closer, with every step becoming more cleansed and redeemed. I knew my old ways would be no more, now that I'd seen this harbinger of truth.

It was an open laptop, and this was on its screen.

My life was never the same since, and I have spent the rest of my life spreading the word.

I can't remember, but it was around '02 I believe.
I used to be a "talkbacker", and AICN was my site of choice, I even hung out in the chat room. AICN used to have a page of links to other sites, CHUD, Corona's Coming Attractions, and Dark Horizons were among them.
CHUD hooked me with the general humor, attitude, and screengrab captions for DVD reviews and it quickly became my most visited site. Dove into the boards a couple years later and immediately started threads that no one responded to.

I saw Nick doing some reviews on CNN and that led me to find the "CHUD" thing

I didn't really follow developments in film to the first Hellboy was being made. Being a big fan of the comic, I was regularly searching for whatever production info I could find. The coverage on CHUD was far better than everyone else, so that led me here.

It was definitely something Prequel-related back in 1999, but I'll be damned if I can remember if the link to Chud was on Dark Horizons or AICN. It was love at first sight. I signed up for the boards about six or nine months later, I think.