Street Trash - Meltdown Edition
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Movie Reviews of Street Trash - Meltdown Edition
Movie Review: Street Trash what can I say?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one of those movies that goes out of it's way to offend, gross out everyone with a joke somewhere around the corner. The movie is in my mind absolutly HELLARIOUS. The movie has Gore/Rape/Homeless People/Sex/Vioulence/Major FX. The movie is based on a bottle of booze called Viper which was released to rid off homeless people. Well one case of this still remained and somehow the Liquor store owner had some stashed in his basement. Well the movie starts there.. Well every friggen homeless person seems to accidently run cross a bottle of Viper and once you drink it, it's like acid and does some really neat melting and exploding effects to your body. This by no means a movie for people who get easily bruised by senseless humor. But to me it's funny and the acting is pretty good knowing it's a B-movie. So if you don't mind a homeless guys exploding/ melting/ having ones wee wee ripped off playing football in slowmotion sequences. Than this movie is for you..
All I have to say is keep an open mind and you won't be dissapointed..
Movie Review: Street Trash Treat
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie at the New Zealand "Incredibly Strange Film Festival" a few years ago and it was my my favorite of the Festival. It has some great scenes and I bet the crew had fun with the paint charts picking the colours for the melting people. Fully recommend it to all B grade aficionados.Movie Review: Funny as hell and twice as gross.
Summary: 3 Stars
Street Trash (Jimmy Muro, 1987)
Street Trash sat on my Amazon wish list for years before I finally gleaned a copy. I'm not sure what it was that originally drew me to the description, but having now seen it, I found it a lot more amusing than I thought I would. This is the kind of thing Troma would do if, you know, anyone at Troma had any talent whatsoever.
George Romero disciple Roy Frumkes (Document of the Dead) penned this tale of a liquor store owner who finds a case of rotgut made by a company called Viper in his cellar. He decides to sell it to the local bums for a dollar a bottle, which makes it popular. Unfortunately, it has some very nasty side effects, which vary from person to person (depending, one assumes, on what the special effects team had cooked up for the day). The various stories follow around a cast of bums, cops, social workers, and other undesirables as Viper makes its deadly way through the streets of New York City.
Muro, normally a camera operator (he's worked on such megahits as Dances with Wolves and Titanic), never directed another movie, and more's the pity; for the budget this thing must have had, it's actually pretty darned good, and over the past two decades it's developed a small but rabid cult following. Unlike many films of its ilk, Street Trash sports a sharp wit and excellent comic timing (qualities which, unfortunately, Frumkes would never display in a script again; he was responsible for the Substitute series of action flicks and the Dutch horror debacle The Johnsons after this), special effects that are simultaneously quasi-realistic and way over the top (a la Dawn of the Dead), and some pretty decent acting. Yeah, there are also all sorts of things about it that could be better, but this is not a movie that was made with the Academy in mind, dig? Take it for what it's worth and you'll have a ball. ***
Movie Review: Ass Clown
Summary: 3 Stars
Street Trash has a lot of hype. and for good reason. lots of great over the top effects and explosions. some good toilet humor and a great nuts bad guy. drags on at parts, the ending is too quick, but if you like dirty hobo's, farts, and melting faces (and who the hell doesn't), then this is a must.Movie Review: Over the Line Ugliness
Summary: 2 Stars
I cannot believe the number of positive reviews posted for this movie. They are what led me to view it. Though I see some of the points made by some of the viewers in regard to the film's big bang for the buck production values, no one seems to mention the fact that this is an ugly, mean-spirited, nasty piece of work. Almost no character throughout the entire film has any redeeming qualities. Even the "bums" (I guess they're no longer called homeless people)are terrible people. At one point in the movie a gang of them rape and kill a woman. What kind of sympathy are they supposed to garner from the audience?
I won't outline the plot, as most of the other reviewers have already done so, but yes, it is a bit convoluted and pretty stupid for the most part, but much of it doesn't even make any sense. The young lady who operates the junk yard where the bums are staying argues with her orca fat boss that he should let them camp out in the yard. He says no, they're bums. She says yes, they're runaways who she is trying to keep from becoming bums. But you don't see her trying to help them out of their situation. And virtually none of them are even runaways. They are all in various stages of maturity and ended up where they're at for who knows what reason. They had their shot and blew it. Even the one kid who is a truly "down on his luck" runaway shares some piss-diluted home brew with some of the others. Is he looking to better his circumstances or is the same as they are?
The main part of the plot (the winos drinking toxic brew and melting into day-glow sludge) is all by itself some brutal nastiness. These winos do nothing to put themselves in the good graces of the audience. One of them steals a bottle of the crud that ends up killing him so why feel bad about it. Just sit back and enjoy it as he corrodes into a nifty pile of goo? I suppose that might be fun in certain circles but I just didn't get it.
Nope. This is just one vile scene after another and it became irritating to watch. I can in no way recommend this film. I felt as though I needed to take a shower when it was over. Don't waste your time or money.