Street Trash (1987)

a devastating blow to my dvd collection

I heard about Street Trash through an exploitation website that had a myriad of sleazy pictures from all over the world that wetted my appetite for gratuitous sex and violence. When I recently decided to purchase a bunch of DVDs that I've been telling myself to get for years I thought it would be a good idea to throw in one of the better sounding movies from this site. Street Trash was the safest. A cheap liquor that causes people to melt! (or combust if you happen to be an obese bum) No, a woman gets gang raped by rabid hobos?! Is there anything more dreadful than that? Heavens no! And a shell shocked bum built like a pro wrestler is ruling the underground with an iron fist. How could you go wrong? It got four and a half stars from the amateur critics at Amazon, which is what films like Glengary Glenn Ross and Naked mustered up, so if a movie this ridiculous got the same reception it must be an unforgetable, campy cult classic like the Evil Dead movies. So now I own a copy.

It is so awful. Awful! What a waste. The deaths from the caustic liqour were few and far between, barely even used as a plot device. The stuff that could've got your stomach churning failed because they delt with it in such an inane inneffectual fashion.

SPOIL ALERT (i guess): Like the keep away with the severed dong and the chick being raped one more time postmortem by the fat junkyard owner.

It has the sense of humor of a sequel to Revenge of the Nerds. The only funny part was when the black bum berated an old white lady at the grocers. He was the only bum that had the spunky spirit of the fun bums that are usually in these kinds of movies the rest of the bums were generic with the exception of the main bum who was some kind of lameo smart alec that whined all the time. Him and his brother seemed to be hobo poseurs. The dirt on their face was so contrived, like they applied it to themselves like makeup.

Basically, it wasn't intentionally funny ala Evil Dead 2 and it wasn't so over-the-top and humorless that it was unintentionally hilarious like Class of 1984. So any sel-respecting person who'd usually be attracted to this sort of movie for kicks and giggles should know it's in that cheesy middle ground that makes it useless. Maybe it doesn't deserve one star but it's to give it a lower rating since people here give away gold stars like hippie fourth grade teachers. I disown this DVD! October 7, 2008

Great sleazy,cheesy,gory dark comedy horror

This movie is king of 80s cheese in my opinion.The speical effects are really great ecspeically considering the low budget,you can tell they put a lot of effort into filming this. I love the colors they used it adds a really grimey feeling. I have Frankenhooker and Basketcase and really enjoyed them as well.If you have seen these movies and liked them you'll have to see Street Trash as well. Next I'm getting Brain Damage also directed by Frank Henenlotter. September 17, 2008

Puddles of Penniless People

This movie felt like a bunch of litttle offensive episodes all glued together with slime.
It follows soooo many characters it can't halp but feel that way.
(Cemetary Man had a similar episodic feel, if you've seen that one.)
That being said, this flick was wildly enjoyable,
amazingly offensive,
and so cheesy, you could bait a mouse-trap with it!!
It's basically about several homeless denizens,
their junk-yard turf, the psychotic vietnam-vet who rules over the homeless kingdom,
and a liquor called Tenefly Viper that will melt any who drink it, into a puddle of paint, in a matter of seconds.
The dialogue is witty albeit painfully offensive to all.
And the gore is so over-the-top, you'll laugh as the bodies start to pile er......pool.
A plethora of cheesey special effects make this flick an absolute must own!!
It's the epitome of "so bad it's good" horror flix!!!
Essentially, it was waaaay ahead of it's time.
The two scenes at the end are the creme de la creme of both horror & comedy!
Not the mention the infamous game of keep-away involving an all too private possession. LOL!!!

**BONUS**
This particular edition of "Street Trash" comes with 2 Tenefly Viper stickers, so you can make your own bottles of the "Viper"....and melt your friends into puddles of joy.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Tenefly Viper!!
It's the drink that melts in your mouth AND in your hands.
July 29, 2008

"Well no I ain't planning on payin' for it, 'cause I ALREADY purchased it!"

'Street Trash' is very likely the greatest film you've never heard of. Ultimately plotless, it's basically a hobo soap-opera, with subplots of rotgut that causes the drinkers to melt into play-doh, gung-ho hobos going on a quest to secure a chicken dinner by shoplifting, a campy love story between the youngest hobo and the attendant of the junkyard they live on, etc. All to the backdrop of a soundtrack symphony of analog 80s synths, goofy cues, and cheesy synth love themes. So great.

The main plot in the movie revolves around a mysterious rack of old rotgut that a local NYC liquor store owner finds behind an old wall in his shop. Ever the enterpriser, he decides to sell the little bottles to the local homeless clientèle for a dollar a pop. And this little neighborhood is flooded with hobos. The main character here, our valiant hero Fred, buys a bottle but has it stolen by another hobo who ends up drinking it while doing his business on a toilet. He ends up melting into veritable play-doh and flushing himself down the toilet. Seriously, an Oscar-worthy scene. This is deemed by Imdb to be the main plot of the movie, but really it's only touched upon a few times. There are, as mentioned before, a ton of goofy slapstick-laden subplots.

My personal favorite part in the movie is where a big strapping black hobo named Burt makes a bet with Fred and his little brother than he can bring back a dinner of fried chicken for three bucks. He, cleverly, pockets a receipt on the ground outside a grocery store and proceeds to fill his gigantic industrial-strenght pants with every manner of bulky perishable imaginable. When he is caught and the store manager doesn't buy the receipt ploy, Burt crankily storms toward the store exit and ends up walking straight through the glass storefront with a shopping bag on his head. Needless to say, I was literally in tears laughing the first time I saw this part. And again, Oscar-worthy.

Suffice it to say that this is a movie you really can't describe, or defend as "of good quality." But snobbish critics forget that the main reason people go to the movies is to love, laugh, cry, etc. 'Street Trash' did all these to me and more. You will walk away a much better man/woman/animal upon watching it.

Now the question remains: Great movie? Or the GREATEST movie? July 22, 2008

B-MOVIE MASTERPIECE!

Ive been a b-movie freak for over 20 years, and i have to say this is in my top 10!
Street Trash is one of the best b-movies of all time, if your into troma movies or any other movie in that catagory you gotta pick this movie up!
Street Trash keeps you laughing from start to finish, theres no slow parts, just pure sleeze! I hope this review helps you out. April 30, 2008

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