ElenaKonig616
OK I bought this movie because it was highly rated as a good cheesy horror movie. It's not. There is a fine line between good cheesy horror and just plain stupid. No one even gets chewed in the movie, just a half dozen bums who drink this liquor then melt. The entire time I was waiting for the movie to "get going" as in lots of carnage but it never did. It is punctuated with this retarded guy from Vietnam who has flashbacks and is just plain weird. Granted there are a few funny parts in the movie and a few funny deaths but they are few and far between. If you really want good cheesy horror and just an all around good movie check these out in order:1. The Return of the Living Dead 2. Dead Alive 3. Dawn of the Dead 4. Black Sheep 5. UndeadThe above movies are insane, they will have you rolling laughing but they engage you. The point is that the above movies set out with the premise that they are over the top and ridiculous. Street Trash tries to have some plot and be serious and fails miserably.
Leofwine_draca
STREET TRASH is one of the better known, zero budget B-movies of the 1980s. It has that reputation thanks to a series of incredibly splattery effects scenes in which homeless people melt from the inside out in spectacular displays of multi-coloured goo. Sadly, these excellent effects scenes are absolutely the only thing the film has going for it, and otherwise it's a complete dud.The viewer is forced to sit through endless and unending scenes of sub-par comedy involving various street characters and their machinations. The opening chase scene is high energy but everything else falls flat, particularly the lowbrow attempts at comedy. There doesn't really seem to be much of a script to speak of, and the acting is strictly amateur. Those special effects are grand indeed, but there aren't enough of them to sustain the running time, and like the Australian flick BODY MELT, this is all effects and no substance.
westside-surfer
I was hoping for a Toxic Avenger quality flick. The cover looked awesomely disgusting so it looked promising. Straight up, Street Trash has some of the coolest gross-out effects I've ever seen. The hobos really looked like bums. I'm still wondering if some of them were picked up on the spot, or at least bought the clothes off their greasy backs.Unfortunately, Street Trash scraps everything else. There's no story, character development, or dialogue. Apart from the hilarious "keep away" scene, there's hardly a reason not to push the fast-forward button. Burton, the gas-mask wearing bum, was the only guy with any charisma. Too bad he only played a supporting role to the main character, if you can even call him that.Toxic Avenger is legendary not just because of the grotesque special effects; it worked because characters were actually funny and likable. We empathize with Toxie when he's shunned by his mother and has to live in the dump. A lot of these Troma-inspired directors concentrate exclusively on the shocking deaths and forget to give us a reason to watch the remaining 75% of the movie.Street Trash is cool if you're just in it for the effects (which are awesome). Everyone else will be let down. Damn, this movie had such great potential.
Harold Boss
I watched this because I saw it compared to Peter Jackson's early films. Unfortunately there's something not quite on the money with Street Trash. The film starts off great with a couple of hilarious melt-deaths. Then the horror dries up and it becomes a fairly unpleasant tale about a bunch of hobos living in a junkyard. There's not really any likable characters and a vague misogynistic undercurrent. The movie could really benefit from having a strong female lead but there's only victims to be found. There's a nympho-type who gets gang-raped and murdered. There's a van full of prostitutes. There's a deranged hobo girl who seems desperate for sex. The only half decent female character is an Asian girl who fends off the molestations of her necrophiliac boss. But she doesn't seem to be angry enough about it. I would have preferred to see her out for revenge or at least call the police. Basically the middle section of this film is sexist trash. There's also a scene were a penis is chopped off and thrown all over the junkyard like a football match. But somehow that didn't make me laugh it just felt downbeat and creepy. That said you should definitely hang in there for the final third of the movie. The last gore- deaths are amazing and ridiculous. And the way the Vietnam vet finally gets his due is very impressive. There's some great stuff in this final section. The scenes featuring James Lorinz (think Frankenhooker) are also pretty funny and lively.
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