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Sure, Street Trash has a convoluted, ridiculous plot, but it also features bums who melt into rainbow sludge upon drinking a fermented relative of Thunderbird, Tenafly Viper. In this '80s B-movie akin to The Toxic Avenger or C.H.U.D., Fred (Mike Lackey) is the main homeless guy who distributes Viper he's lifted from the local liquor store. Once he discovers the alcohol's lethal potential, he wields it as a weapon, eventually fighting head criminal, Bronson, a psycho-killer Vietnam vet who carries a human femur bone handle knife. Side plots, such as one involving a begrudging policeman who seeks to clean up the Street Trash community housed in a junkyard, or the one featuring Wendy, the hot girl who guards runaways from the junkyard's fat, mean owner, are beside the point. Watch Street Trash for its infamous penis scene, in which a member is chopped off and tossed around in a game of keep away, or watch the film to see a man melt down into a blue pile as he's flushed down a toilet bowl. Street Trash's gore isn't so disturbing as it is comic, as are the bums' New Romantic costumes similar to Dexy's Midnight Runners in the video for their '80s hit, "Come On Eileen." Applaud Street Trash for its gaudy, horrendous splendor. Notably, this re-release contains the original Super-8 short of the film, featuring even more homemade special effects and low-grade humor.--Trinie Dalton
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
STREET TRASH was a vhs rental favourite on the old Avatar label for many years.
Arrow have given this release the sort of treatment usually reserved for Criterion titles!
In addition to a superb transfer,you also get a second disc with 'The Meltdown Memoirs' and a Jane Arakawa feature.
This is a real collector's package which also comes with Double sided artwork,a fold out poster and an excellent booklet by film journo Callum Waddell,which discusses with various members of the production,the 42nd Street fleapit phenomena in New York.
All in all,a cracking package at a price that is a steal.
Snap it up now-you won't be disappointed,especially if you love films like 'Basket Case' and 'Bad Taste'.
Arrow have given this release the sort of treatment usually reserved for Criterion titles!
In addition to a superb transfer,you also get a second disc with 'The Meltdown Memoirs' and a Jane Arakawa feature.
This is a real collector's package which also comes with Double sided artwork,a fold out poster and an excellent booklet by film journo Callum Waddell,which discusses with various members of the production,the 42nd Street fleapit phenomena in New York.
All in all,a cracking package at a price that is a steal.
Snap it up now-you won't be disappointed,especially if you love films like 'Basket Case' and 'Bad Taste'.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This movie took me by surprise. It gave me hillarious characters and a funny story as well as loads of really gory melting people. The story is a bunch of bums in New York who start finding bottles of viper but what they dont know is that it turns them into mulch, meanwhile a Clint Eastwood style cop is taking out the trash on people to try and find out whats going on.
This is a hard DVD to get but if you get the chance to watch it dont pass on it as your missing a treat. Move over Toxie cause Street Trash has taken your place in the world of comedy horror.
This is a hard DVD to get but if you get the chance to watch it dont pass on it as your missing a treat. Move over Toxie cause Street Trash has taken your place in the world of comedy horror.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
*** This review contains some slight spoilers***
Well what can I say about Street Trash, it was gross, disgusting, bad but also one of the best and most hilarious films I've ever seen. The characters in the film really look like bums they even act that way and they happen to look very filthy, the film doesn't exactly have a storyline and it seems to go from one plot to the next but the main plotline concerns these two runaway brothers who are trying to survive living in the junkyard they're also helped by a Japanese woman who works there and gives them food meanwhile a liquor store owner finds a wooden case behind a wall in the basement and finds these cheap bottles of tenafly viper so he ends up selling it for a buck to the local bums not realising what this cheap booze does to a person when they start drinking from it they either start melting away or explode, there is also a subplot about a mafia boss's girlfriend who gets raped by the bums at the junkyard and a vigilante cop who is out for revenge cause hes sick and tired of this psychotic Vietnam vet named Bronson who also happens to be the main villain, you get to see him beat up a mafia hitman to death then proceed to vomit on him yes very nice and just when I thought I had seen it all the bums at the junkyard start tossing around a severed penis, not only is this film very sick and twisted but its also very over the top in a humorous way. The film has some very nice and gory special fx where lots of bums end up melting into a slimy and gooey pile of flesh and Bronson has a love interest thats guaranteed to make you barf. If you enjoy films like Deadalive or Bad Taste then you're going to love this, this film is definitely not for the squeamish but if you enjoy some gory 80's low budget comedy/horror films then I highly recommend this plus it has James Lorinz from Frankenhooker he probably has some of the most hilarious lines in the entire film this guy should seriously do stand up comedy. This is part of my old review from Amazon.com, this film has also been released on region 2 dvd from Arrow video (about time) which has been nicely restored and is completely uncut--in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (enhanced for 16x9 TVs), and the stereo soundtrack is also nice and clear. More fans should check out this gory 80's cult classic. The special features are basicly the same as the Synapse release only with a 15 page booklet and an extra interview with Jane Arakawa, I highly recommend this.
Well what can I say about Street Trash, it was gross, disgusting, bad but also one of the best and most hilarious films I've ever seen. The characters in the film really look like bums they even act that way and they happen to look very filthy, the film doesn't exactly have a storyline and it seems to go from one plot to the next but the main plotline concerns these two runaway brothers who are trying to survive living in the junkyard they're also helped by a Japanese woman who works there and gives them food meanwhile a liquor store owner finds a wooden case behind a wall in the basement and finds these cheap bottles of tenafly viper so he ends up selling it for a buck to the local bums not realising what this cheap booze does to a person when they start drinking from it they either start melting away or explode, there is also a subplot about a mafia boss's girlfriend who gets raped by the bums at the junkyard and a vigilante cop who is out for revenge cause hes sick and tired of this psychotic Vietnam vet named Bronson who also happens to be the main villain, you get to see him beat up a mafia hitman to death then proceed to vomit on him yes very nice and just when I thought I had seen it all the bums at the junkyard start tossing around a severed penis, not only is this film very sick and twisted but its also very over the top in a humorous way. The film has some very nice and gory special fx where lots of bums end up melting into a slimy and gooey pile of flesh and Bronson has a love interest thats guaranteed to make you barf. If you enjoy films like Deadalive or Bad Taste then you're going to love this, this film is definitely not for the squeamish but if you enjoy some gory 80's low budget comedy/horror films then I highly recommend this plus it has James Lorinz from Frankenhooker he probably has some of the most hilarious lines in the entire film this guy should seriously do stand up comedy. This is part of my old review from Amazon.com, this film has also been released on region 2 dvd from Arrow video (about time) which has been nicely restored and is completely uncut--in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (enhanced for 16x9 TVs), and the stereo soundtrack is also nice and clear. More fans should check out this gory 80's cult classic. The special features are basicly the same as the Synapse release only with a 15 page booklet and an extra interview with Jane Arakawa, I highly recommend this.
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Street Trash Was Just As I Remembered It!
Street trash was without a doubt one of the finer movie highlights of my childhood. It was full of bad language and some multi-colour melting special effects when some of the... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Wayne Tully
super
... I wanna see this film, it looks good.. and I like this
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Published 1 month ago by LONDON NINJA.
Great release of the ultimate Melt Movie.
Street Trash to me is the greatest Melt movie of all time. Not only does it have a bigger budget feel to it, it still looks as though it was made yesterday and hasn't dated at... Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Pike
a nice surprise
I watched street trash for the first time today and really enjoyed it.
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There are some gory bits. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Bobby Klump
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thought i'd give a review about the whole DVD package which is quality, Arrow provide so many extras that put others to shame, feel i bit ripped off when you receive your DVD and... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mickey Modelle
AWSOME...!
Last time i watched this i was a only a kid!So chuffed when i heard it was out on DVD, this perticular version comes with a poster and booklet aswell as bonus material! Read more
Published 22 months ago by M. Husbands
Divine Trash..
Arrow have done a great job bringing this film out in the UK so it can hopefully attract new fans and with that dvd cover it's got to appeal to the right audience,well done... Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by S. P. Ridley
Molten hobo holocaust baby!!
Fantastic melt movie from the 80's. Much in the style of Toxic avenger, but perhaps even more hilarious. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Jonas Wilmann
Look at the cover!
I have waited a long time to own this awesome film, but I never imagined that when the day came for it to be re-released, it would be given this sort of treatment! Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2010 by Arrrrrrrach
Oh, you'veneverseenanythinglikeitinyourlife!
You really haven't. However, let's get one thing straight right away.
This is not a horror movie.
That's right, this isn't a horror movie. Read more
This is not a horror movie.
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