Street Trash (1987)

Cast: Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil and Vic Noto

Writer: Roy Frumkes

Director: J. Michael Muro

Back in the early 90's when I was a kid and my family moved to an area here in the Bronx that actually had cable, I was introduced to many great channels and shows. One of which was "Short Attention Span Theater" on Comedy Central, which if I remember correct would air Friday evening/ Saturday morning at 12:00 am. This program would show clips from movies and the hosts would say funny jokes about it and so on. Through this show I became obsessed with many B-Horror films and not to mention "USA'S Up All Night" as well. But it was this show that gave me my first glance at the film that I obsessively searched for until it was finally released on DVD. That film is "Street Trash" and this review will unlock the answers as to the film being worth the wait or a prolonged disappointment.

The plot of this film, is most certainly B and definitely original, A liqour store owner finds a mysterious case of booze in a hidden sealed of compartment in his store. He decides to sell the booze called Viper to all the homeless gents that bother him regularly for just a dollar. Unaware that Viper has more bite than expected and turns these homeless folks in to molten puddles of neon goo. The homeless population are lead by an ex vet whom most of them answer too except for to brothers. So you have all types of hijinks with this homeless crew in the junk yard they occupy, viper and more.

The characters are very fun and add delete to the film in many ways, they range from funny, to odd to flat out wtf? You have your bad ass no nonsense cop, your superior king of the bums, your good brother bad brother, the horny owner of the lot, his assistsnt he keeps trying to bang and the rest of the wacky "Flatbush Foot Brigade". The acting is good for a B-flick cause many have very bad acting but can still hold a torch of proud cult cinema and this film is definitely one that is stand alone and has it's own torch that can hold and like many a great B-movie still hasn't been matched to.

The death toll, is pretty good serving up some strange death scenes and weird gooey gore scenes, it definitely makes "Street Trash" a one of a kind experience. The gore is good though you get some body parts here and there an explosion and a lot of melting bums. It's not really a gore film, but it does serve up a nice helping of death and a whole lot of funny carnage.

Overall, this film was worth the wait as impatient as I was to see it. When purchasing it I became even more eager to see it and once finally watching it, was completely satisfied by it. It has the feel of a classic Lloyd Kaufman film, but at the same time it doesn't. It definitely does stand next to greats like "The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High and so on, and is just as stand alone. I would have loved a sequel but at the same time and glad there wasn't one cause the film is perfect as is. With that said, I high recommend to fans of the B if they haven't had the chance to see this film yet and give this film five cans of booze out of 5.

5/5