Street Trash

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One day someone said, "I'd like to make a movie featuring a bottle of hooch that makes people melt into multi-colored ooze. I think I'll also add "sub-plots" about insane homeless vets, murder, necrophilia, gang-rape, castration, and police brutality. Oh, and it's a COMEDY." Anyone who blasts the movie probably had no idea what they were getting into. Yeah, the story - if you want to call it that - is flimsy at best, but the film is punctuated by some inventive effects, some nice camera work, and a hysterical mostly-improvised Doorman character played by James Lorinz. Summed up, if you like your movies dispicable, reprehensible, obnoxious, offensive, crude, and downright nasty, pick this one up. You won't be disappointed.

Yes, I actually thought this was better than some recent horror/comedies I've seen. Certainly superior to Urban Legend or Scream. I'm positively stunned by the fact that people would see the cover for this movie, read the title and synopsis, watch it, and then complain that this flick is offensive. For crying out loud, what do you expect from a film whose promotional literature shows a melted transient's head in a toilet bowl? Casablanca? Anyone dumb enough to see this movie and be taken aback by its admittedly sordid contents has exactly what they have coming to them.

Jim Muro's "Street Trash" supposedly is a peculiar and very cheerful "melt-movie", but I certainly wasn't the least bit amused by it. Perhaps it's the high amateur-grade that immediately put me off, but more probable is that the idiocy of the plot, the incoherence of the screenplay and the laughable gore effects were simply too unendurable. The retarded story seems to handle about a strange type of liquor that causes the bums at the local junkyard to melt away completely, until there's only a gooey pile of their pus left. It's really pointless to waste any further lines on this junk. Half of the time, you don't understand what's being said simply because the 'actors' can't even talk properly. The make-up effects are miserable and the clumsy photography is pitiful. The only good thing about "Street Trash" is the title, which indicates that you shouldn't waste time or money on it.

Originally I assumed it was about a liquor store dealer trying to wipe out the parasitic hobos in the area. Admittedly I wasn't concentrating. Then I picked up the pieces - its about... a hobo who needs to learn to care about his hobo brother... I think. And to be honest, as far as horror goes, maybe my misinterpretation of what was going on was better? But this was far more comedy than horror, like far more "Pink Flamingos" than it is "Gremlins". And it has it's quirks. The meltdowns are impressive and colourfully so, which I wanted to hate initially. There is crass humour, crass was expected the humour not so much, so props to landing the jokes. Cinematography was surprisingly great, flowing effortlessly with constant awkward frames amplifying that awkward fluidity I was soaking up from this sad little story. But the characters were awful. Damn, were they awful. Who were we suppose to be watching? The first man we see turns out to be awful, so we assume not him. His brother is sweet but what a total naff, so not him. The cop could be a hero, but he boxes a hobo, so no. Then it turns out, yes, the first guy, and that kinda sucks. Taking everything into account: the story was lacking, the characters were shocking, the humour had some swings and hits, others were misses, the effects were fun - there is by no means a way of calling this a stellar film, and I wouldn't know when to recommend it that wouldn't feel like a bit of a waste of time but it's not the worst thing to come out of a bargain bin before.

In the streets of a New York where the homeless live in a junkyard and on the streets, two bum brothers named Fred ( Mike Lackey) and Kevin ( Mark Sferrazza) are living together in a hut of a auto wreck yard thinking life has become crap for them. A liquor store owner however discovers in his store an old box of special liquor called "Viper" that is 40 years old as he think it might be good to sell at a low cost price of one dollar, unfortunately it has a very bad side effect on those who drink it as it can cause a person to literally melt or explode. Original, tasteless and exciting horror comedy that has gained a cult following since it was released in 1987, the acting maybe bad but the movie has awesome gore, melting and exploding body effects and a dark sense of humor to help the movie. There's also some nudity for those who who like nudity and is nicely photographed, look for R.L. Ryan ( The mayor from "The Toxic Avenger") as a boss. A must see if you like Peter Jackson's early work, Troma flicks and gory horror comedies. Also recommended: "The Toxic Avenger", "Day of the Dead", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", " Tetsuo The Iron Man", "The Stuff", "Class of Nuke'Em High", " Re-Animator", " Evil Dead II", " Cannibal Ferox", " Scanners", " Ichi The Killer", " The New York Ripper', " Maniac ( 1980)", " Rabid Grannies", "Hostel", " Cabin Fever", " Luthor the Geek", " Driller Killer", " Pieces", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2", " The Devil's Rejects", " A Nightmare on Elm Street", " Friday The 13th series", "Freddy Vs. Jason", " Final Destination 2 & 3", " Blood Feast", " Blood Feast 2", " Robocop", " Fist of the North Star (Anime)", " Last House on The Left", "Jungle Holocaust ( a.k.a. Last Cannibal World)", " Cannibal Holocaust", " High Tension", "Mother's Day", " Leon: The Professional", " Bad Taste", "Dead Alive ( a.k.a. Braindead)", "Meet The Feebles", " Troma's War", " Combat Shock", " Sin City", " Terror Firmer", " Bride of Re-Aniamtor", " Beyond Re-Animator", " House of 1000 Corpses", "Pink Flamingos", " Blue Velvet", "Caligula", " The Incredible Melting Man", " Basket Case", " An American Werewolf in London", " From Dusk Till Dawn", " Demons", " Shogun Assassin", " Phenomena", " Men Behind The Sun", " Tromeo & Juliet", " I Drink Your Blood", " Cannibal Apocalypse", " Bloody Birthday", " I Spit on Your Grave", " Blood Diner", " Videodrome", " Natural Born Killers", "Versus", " Blade II", " Candyman", " Texas Chainsaw Massacre ( 2003)", "Contamination", "Taxi Driver", "Stacy" and "House of Wax" ( 2005).

Sure the acting is horrible, and there's about ten or twelve incoherent unrelated plots and the special effects look like some four dollar and thirty five cent props bought from Murray's Party Supplies but this an essential low budget schock insanity movie. Random thoughts that will run through your head when watching it include: wow, somebody actually took the time and effort to write out a screenplay for this garbage? and I wonder how many times they had to re do this entire nutty scene before the "actors" stopped cracking up at it's sheer insanity. This is definitely a hidden gem, a true jewel if your lucky enough to live near a video store that has a copy of it. Rent it!!!!!!! 10 out of 10.

People today are just plain sick in the head. Street Trash rules. Pick this up at any cost. I met some of the cast when street trash came out at the best ever HORROR CONVENTION FANTACON and you couldn't meet cooler, nicer people. For today's standards of crap, stay clear of this great film. If you like remakes today (people can't think for themselves to make an original film)you probably won't like this great film. Yeah, GREAT FILM. I will not debate you on this film or force you to like it (like you do to people today). NOT FOR THE PC WIMP, that's for sure. I have an idea, drink some viper(JUST A LITTLE), that will calm down the wimps who talk crap about the things they say in STREET TRASH.

Ah, the Summer of 1985, when college kids my age were home from school drinking till they dropped cuz Spuds McKenzie told them to, rap music was that new, quirky sounding stuff and you could still go to movie theatres to catch midnight movies like STREET TRASH. I spent that Summer working on STREET TRASH in Brooklyn. I was there to watch director Jim Muro (now one of the leading Stedicam operators in the business) dictate where and when winos were to melt. The film has lots of gore, but surreal gore. People pull apart and melt in crazy primary colors in this film, so it's a blender-mix of Hershel Gordon Lewis and Salvadore Dali. If you can, catch it on DVD, because I worked hard on the film, I think it came out great, and it's alot of fun.