dvlnthebludrs Perfect. The deaths were fun and visually stimulating. One reason I love b-horror is the creative license of the visual effects guys and this movie does NOT disappoint. It was disgusting!... I love the fact that they did not go for your typical blood and guts, but used cool colors and took the effects to the next limit. Excellent, just excellent!

Scott LeBrun Liquor store owner Ed (M. D'Jango Krunch) is nosing around in his basement when he finds some VERY old booze labelled "Tenafly Viper". He figures, what the hell, he'll sell it to his customers for $1 a bottle. But this booze is deadly stuff: when people drink it, they explode into goop in all colours of the rainbow. While the body count rises, the story focuses on two street denizens who are brothers: Fred (Mike Lackey) and Kevin (Mark Sferrazza) who take up residence in a spacious auto junkyard along with various other hobos."Street Trash" marks, to date, the only theatrical directing credit for James M. Muro, who went on to Hollywood and became one of the most in-demand Steadicam operators in the business. Basing this movie on a short subject he'd made, he clearly has some real fun with the material. The Manhattan-based production makes some excellent use of locations, and has some very striking characters. Among them is the almighty Bronson (Vic Noto), a psychotic Vietnam veteran with a bunch of flunkies. Sexy Jane Arakawa, a gal with a great pair of legs, is the secretary who takes sympathy on Fred & Kevin and their cronies. Pat Ryan ("The Toxic Avenger") is her horny, scuzzy boss. And Bill Chepil is the surly, hard driving detective working these streets.The makeup effects are wonderfully gross and effective. There are scenes here so memorable that they remain favourites for fans: Burts' impromptu shopping trip, and the entire "penis keepaway" sequence. One brilliant gag occurs early on when Bronson manhandles a nerdy motorist. The two best characters are thuggish restaurant owner Nick Duran (Tony Darrow) and his smart mouthed doorman (James Lorinz of "Frankenhooker"). Muro and company know that their scenes are some of the funniest here, so they keep their story going during the end credits.While "Street Trash" took about 13 weeks to shoot, its journey to movie screens took about three years. It proves that filmmaking finesse isn't always everything: sometimes gung-ho enthusiasm and the willingness to pull out all the stops can go a long way too.Eight out of 10.

trashgang This is one of those weird flicks in the horror genre that still has a huge following. It's so strange for me to accept that because when I look at the year it was made effects stood already really far. On the other hand it clearly shows that it was an ultra low budget, if you have a close look towards the make-up of the hobo's then you see how bad that was. The effects used by Jennifer Aspinall are rather good, they are special on the part of the use of slime. It was well done and the use of brightly colors made it look strangely.It was J. Michael Murofirst attempt to make a flick. He was a good steadicam operator and it shows, he just wrapped Spookies (1986) and decided to do his first directing. It was okay but for me the storyline failed a bit. It takes a while before the melting comes on-screen. Okay, you have some in the beginning but after that part it slapstick galore. just look at the scene with the chopped off penis. It was outdated on my account. What surprised me was the use of some full frontal nudity from male and female. A thing I didn't expected from such a kind of flick. almost the whole bunch of actors were unknown and they never appeared in other flicks, a few did, the most known one is R.L. Ryan, a face seen in some Troma flicks. The director went further to steadicam in major productions like X-men and Titanic for example.Not my cup of tea Street Trash, I did like the camera work and the melting effects but it's not up-to-date to today's standards. Gore 2/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 1/5

Paul Andrews 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.