Freaktana
A Major Disappointment
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
dvlnthebludrs
Perfect. The deaths were fun and visually stimulating. One reason I love b-horror is the creative license of the visual effects guys and this movie does NOT disappoint. It was disgusting!... I love the fact that they did not go for your typical blood and guts, but used cool colors and took the effects to the next limit. Excellent, just excellent!
ElenaKonig616
OK I bought this movie because it was highly rated as a good cheesy horror movie. It's not. There is a fine line between good cheesy horror and just plain stupid. No one even gets chewed in the movie, just a half dozen bums who drink this liquor then melt. The entire time I was waiting for the movie to "get going" as in lots of carnage but it never did. It is punctuated with this retarded guy from Vietnam who has flashbacks and is just plain weird. Granted there are a few funny parts in the movie and a few funny deaths but they are few and far between. If you really want good cheesy horror and just an all around good movie check these out in order:1. The Return of the Living Dead 2. Dead Alive 3. Dawn of the Dead 4. Black Sheep 5. UndeadThe above movies are insane, they will have you rolling laughing but they engage you. The point is that the above movies set out with the premise that they are over the top and ridiculous. Street Trash tries to have some plot and be serious and fails miserably.
George Clarke
Street Trash is an amazing little surprise of wonderful cinematography, hilarious satire, cheesy performances, fantastic old school special effects and gore, and total entertainment!This is what the 80's was all about, true independent film making that didn't need to follow rules and still manages to entertain more than most of the Hollywood crap that comes out today.UK based distributors, Arrow Label, have released such a beautiful DVD and Bluray package that includes reverse sleeves, original artwork, with a host of extras and digitally remastered version of the classic!I really enjoyed Street Trash. It is exactly what it says on the tin, bright and colourful, loud and nasty, hilarious and gross.Well worth the watch!
Paul Andrews
Street Trash is set on the grimy streets of New York where a homeless man named Fred (Mike Lackey) & his brother Kevin (Mark Sferrazza) live in a junkyard ran by Frank Schnizer (Pat Ryan) & his sexy secretary Wendy (Jane Arakawa). They both get by the best they can & when a local liquor store starts selling vintage bottles of Viper booze for just a dollar the local homeless population are quick to buy it, unfortunately Viper has the unwanted side-effect of causing anyone who drinks it to instantly melt into gloop...Directed by Jim Muro this little oddity was obviously trying to jump on the cult bandwagon as a group of filmmakers throw in as many bad taste gags, gore & bodily fluids as possible in order to get their film noticed, while not as successful as other attempts such as The Evil (1982), Re-Animator (1985) & Bad Taste (1987) it has it's moments. While the makers try to crank up the gore & vulgarity with various scenes of people melting, exploding, having their cock's chopped off & being decapitated by flying gas bottles or fat men having sex with dead bodies, a game of American football using a severed penis & various fart & puke gags there's no sort of coherent narrative to tie it together. In fact I would say Street Trash is one of the most plot less films I can ever remember seeing, it feels like a collection of unconnected scenes edited together. There's all sorts of sub-plots that go nowhere, the Italian mob boss, the cop the liquor store owner who sells the Viper which is never connected to anything either & serves no purpose other than to show a few people melting (one guy just explodes for some unexplained reason). The whole film feels pointless & while the gore & bad taste make it watchable on a certain level I came away from Street Trash feeling empty somehow. None of it makes any sense, at an hour & forty minutes long it gets a bit boring & repetitive while the abstract randomness of it all just didn't appeal to me.While I felt as a film Street Trash was ultimately lacking it does have it's moments, namely it's gory melting effects work & some outrageous bad taste gags. The first melt effects scene is easily the best, a scene in which a guy melts while sitting on a toilet & the final shot is of his half melted head & face just sticking up out of the toilet bowel, there are also a couple of other good melting scenes with surprisingly good special effects that has goo spurt everywhere as flesh drips off, bones break & skin melts. There's also a neat bit at the end as a guy is has his head taken off with a flying gas bottle, again the special effects are impressive. The film looks very slick actually, there's a lot of impressive steady-cam work here & it's no surprise that director Jim Muro went on to become one of Hollywood's finest steady-cam operators with titles like The Abyss (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), JFK (1991), Falling Down (1993), True Lies (1994), Heat (1995), Titanic (1997), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Fast and the Furious (2001), X-Men 2 (2003) & it's sequel X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) amongst his impressive list of credits.Filmed in New York this looks surprisingly polished with good effects although the low budget nature of the film is sometime apparent. The acting isn't great, I'm sure the cast did the best they could but no-one is going to win any awards.Street Trash is a bizarre curiosity that almost defies description, it has no discernible plot & is rather random like it was made up as the makers went along. Sure there's good good effects work & some decent gore & bad taste gags but not much to be honest. As a supposed cult classic Street Trash is probably worthy of being called a one of a kind cult film but not a classic.
