Street Trash (1987)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Captivating movie !

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Awesome gore effects and a total lack of regard for good taste, this movie is disgusting and aimless, but a total sleaze classic. If you want to watch a movie where a cop kills a hit-man then pukes on his corpse or where a homeless man gets his member cut off and other homeless people play keep away with it, this is for you! There isn't much of a plot and it felt longer than necessary, but the melting scenes were so well done that it makes up for it.

STREET TRASH is one of the better known, zero budget B-movies of the 1980s. It has that reputation thanks to a series of incredibly splattery effects scenes in which homeless people melt from the inside out in spectacular displays of multi-coloured goo. Sadly, these excellent effects scenes are absolutely the only thing the film has going for it, and otherwise it's a complete dud.The viewer is forced to sit through endless and unending scenes of sub-par comedy involving various street characters and their machinations. The opening chase scene is high energy but everything else falls flat, particularly the lowbrow attempts at comedy. There doesn't really seem to be much of a script to speak of, and the acting is strictly amateur. Those special effects are grand indeed, but there aren't enough of them to sustain the running time, and like the Australian flick BODY MELT, this is all effects and no substance.

One reviewer said "Anyone dumb enough to see this movie and be taken aback by its admittedly sordid contents has exactly what they have coming to them." Well I've seen some pretty sick movie's and nothing in this movie made me sick. Admittedly the melt scenes are pretty cool but there really is not point to them because this movie has ZERO plot. If you're looking to feel dirtier than watching porn yet bored to death you will love this movie. As to being a funny horror comedy? absolutely not. If you want that go watch Dale And Tucker or something because this isn't funny.Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

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.