Synapse Films president Don May Jr. wrote a detailed update on the site's blog explaining that their long-awaited Blu-ray “Meltdown Edition” release of James Muro's 1987 cult classic Street Trash, originally slated for June 11th, has been delayed slightly due to technical issues in the restoration and HD remastering process. Street Trash was transferred in high-definition from the original camera negative, which had many physical flaws to be addressed – flaws which were not visible in the earlier standard definition DVD release – and May says those issues were not addressed to his satisfaction by the authoring facility involved. “For me personally, this project is currently in a state that I refuse to release,” he writes. “I have discussed it with my business partner, Jerry Chandler, and we both agree that the delay, to fix the issues at hand, is more important than to release a botched product to our fans, and to the marketplace,...
- 5/6/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Synapse Films has released some great cult classics over the years and has announced that 1987′s Street Trash will be getting the Blu-ray treatment. Blu-ray.com reports that the movie will be available on June 11th and includes a pretty decent set of special features:
“In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways – eighteen-year-old Fred (Mike Lackey) and his younger brother, Kevin (Mark Sferrazza) – live in a tire hut in the back of an auto wrecking yard. Life is hard, but the most lethal threat to the boys is the mysterious case of “Tenafly Viper” wine in Ed’s liquor store window. The stuff is forty years old… and it’s gone bad. Real bad! Anyone who drinks it melts in seconds, and it’s only a dollar a bottle.
The subversive cult classic/horror comedy Street Trash rode the last wave...
“In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways – eighteen-year-old Fred (Mike Lackey) and his younger brother, Kevin (Mark Sferrazza) – live in a tire hut in the back of an auto wrecking yard. Life is hard, but the most lethal threat to the boys is the mysterious case of “Tenafly Viper” wine in Ed’s liquor store window. The stuff is forty years old… and it’s gone bad. Real bad! Anyone who drinks it melts in seconds, and it’s only a dollar a bottle.
The subversive cult classic/horror comedy Street Trash rode the last wave...
- 3/28/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Once in a blue moon, a movie comes along that provides like no other. It can contain in-depth analysis into the human psyche, a romantic tryst that inhibits the world from rotating on its axis, profound intellectual human emotions on galactic levels, and/or redemption that sustains your inner wisdom from feeling remorse or guilt.
Street Trash has None of these!!
Where other films deliver on the abovementioned goods (bads?), Street Trash emits a giant “Fuck You”, and then sodomizes you while simultaneously belittling you for contributing to the human race! Never has a film raped the corneas, as well as the silver screens, of the world with such gusto and abhorrent negligence. Okay Straw Dogs did a similar thing for its generation as well, but did Straw Dogs have derelict-melting “Thunderbird”, a crazed (yet Very funny!) Mafioso hell-bent on burying his (even more hilarious!) entrance usher, a junkyard Colonel...
Street Trash has None of these!!
Where other films deliver on the abovementioned goods (bads?), Street Trash emits a giant “Fuck You”, and then sodomizes you while simultaneously belittling you for contributing to the human race! Never has a film raped the corneas, as well as the silver screens, of the world with such gusto and abhorrent negligence. Okay Straw Dogs did a similar thing for its generation as well, but did Straw Dogs have derelict-melting “Thunderbird”, a crazed (yet Very funny!) Mafioso hell-bent on burying his (even more hilarious!) entrance usher, a junkyard Colonel...
- 6/11/2011
- by Ray of the Dead
- The Liberal Dead
I’m letting you in on a secret I’m not proud to admit. I'd never seen Street Trash. Why the shame? Well, if you’ve read the required horror viewing list, you’d know that Street Trash is near the top of that list. I have no excuse for not seeing it, but hopefully this review will rectify this huge oversight.
A low budget indie horror, 1987’s Street Trash is a hilarious Technicolor gorefest. Set against a pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Street Trash is what would happen if Abel Ferrara did a comedy. Filmed on the Brooklyn-Queens border, where apparently no completed buildings existed, Street Trash is an extremely bleak and disturbing slapstick comedy.
The film centers on a junkyard inhabited by alcoholics, runaways, crazies, and deviants. The chorus is kept in check by deranged Vietnam vet, Bronson (Vic Noto), who strangely resembles Zach Galifianakis. When a local liquor store unearths...
A low budget indie horror, 1987’s Street Trash is a hilarious Technicolor gorefest. Set against a pre-gentrified Brooklyn, Street Trash is what would happen if Abel Ferrara did a comedy. Filmed on the Brooklyn-Queens border, where apparently no completed buildings existed, Street Trash is an extremely bleak and disturbing slapstick comedy.
The film centers on a junkyard inhabited by alcoholics, runaways, crazies, and deviants. The chorus is kept in check by deranged Vietnam vet, Bronson (Vic Noto), who strangely resembles Zach Galifianakis. When a local liquor store unearths...
- 9/10/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (David McKendry)
- Fangoria
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