Street Trash (1987)
7/10
Lost Treasure From the 1980s... Not to be Missed
5 April 2009
In a world where the homeless fight each other and will do just about anything for food and booze, we come across "Street Trash". All is fine and good until the day a long lost case of Tenafly Viper, a cheap wine, is uncovered and sold to the bums... one sip of this stuff, and you're history.

I have heard of this film talked about highly for some time now, and I finally saw it. Oh my! The blood, gore and nasty black humor is unbelievable. What can this film be compared to? Not much... maybe some of Troma's better films ("Terror Firmer"?), or "Frankenhooker". It stands alone as the ultimate bum fight movie.

The special effects really take the cake. Melting bums... exploding bums... bums that get ripped in half... this is the kind of thing that takes the best minds in the makeup industry to perfect, and they've done it. Sure, the colorful ooze might not be realistic... but I don't think that was the point here. It's just messy!

If you haven't seen this... see it. Like, now. Like, this day. Seriously. Don't watch anything else. If you do, that is a big mistake. Thank you, Synapse Films for releasing this... if a better copy exists, I don't know about it. But then, what do I know? I hesitated too long on seeing this and deserve to be punished.
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