You Booze, You ooze!

Street Trash is a dirty, grimy, slimy, gritty, gory piece of cinematic sleaze that oozes with special effects and wears it's low-budget's charm like a metal of honor. Two runaways Fred ( Mike Lackey ) and his younger brother Kevin ( Mark Sferrazza ) are living a hard knocking life in a junkyard (filmed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY) surrounded by Hobos, drunks, rapists, lowlifes, and a psychopathic Vietnam Vet named Bronson who owns the auto wrecking yard. Life and times at the junkyard becomes a peek into the lives of some true degenerates. When the owner of the local liquor store Ed's Liquor finds a crate of 40 year old bottles of liquor named Tenafly Viper in his basement, he decides to sell the stuff at a dollar a bottle. It doesn't take long for some of the local hobos to notice the cheap stuff and decide to give it a try, causing them to melt and ooze to death when their insides are turned into florescent colors and pour for every opening. The style of these scenes are one of a kind and is something never attempted in any other film with some really vibrant paint creating some super-brilliant death scenes. The scene where a bum drinks a bottle of the Viper and melts down to a fleshy mess of bright slime and sucked down a toilet is especially nasty and great at the same time.

The director is Jim Muro who went on to work on some blockbusters like Terminator 2 , JFK, Titanic and over fifty other films. Roy Frumkes who was the writer played a small role in the film where he gets his face burned off and actually was an extra in the original Dawn of the Dead, he played one of the zombies to be hit in the face with a pie by the bikers. He was also the writer for Document of the dead. Drakes Cakes sponsored the film so the staff practically lived on the snacks for the whole three month shoot. Brian Singer ( X-men, Superman returns) was a production assistant and was fired and then rehired during post production.

Some of the great tag lines are "If you've never seen a movie melt before.... be prepared!", "It melts", "Things in New York are about to go down the toilet..." and "Just when you thought you had seen it all".

Street Trash was released in 1987 by Lightning video. It since has been released on laser disc and Synapse films put out a couple great DVD's completely uncut including extras.

Street Trash is pure vile trashy cinema, and not in a bad way either. After you get through all 102 minutes of the film you feel like you just spent a few days in a dumpster. The movie rolls along like a freight train of filth, not holding back on any of it's gore which is the greasy gravy of this dirty dish served up on celluloid. I absolutely loved it! A big garbage stained thumbs up.

Rating: B-

Review by Jason