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Street Trash (1987) is a movie directed by James Muro. It won the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. It has acquired a status as a cult classic horror-comedy and is one of a number of cult classic movies known as 'melt' movies. Street Trash is similar to Body Melt 1993

Roy Frumkes wrote the screenplay: in a NBR he later said: :"I wrote it to democratically offend every group on the planet, and as a result the youth market embraced it as a renegade work, and it played midnight shows."

Synopsis

The owner of a liquor store in lower Manhattan finds a case of cheap wine ("Viper") in his basement. Its over forty years old and has gone bad, but he decides to sell it to the local hobos anyway. Unfortunately, anyone who drinks this Viper melts away in a hideous fashion. The movie is littered with darkly comedic deaths and injury - notably the hobo who dies from exploding due to a bad case of gas; a man who appears to welcome friends despite the fact his face is melting and a severed head which looks around curiously at its killers. It also contains the notorious 'severed privates' scene where a group of homeless people play catch with the severed member of one of their number, as he futilely attempts to recover it.

Cast

Mike Lackey - Fred
Bill Chepil - Bill The Cop
Mark Sferrazza - Kevin
Jane Arakawa - Wendy
Nicole Potter - Winette
R. L. Ryan
- Frank Schnizer
Clarenze Jarmon - Burt
Bernard Perlman - Wizzy
Miriam Zucker - Drunken Wench
M. D'Jango Krunch - Ed
James Lorinz
- Doorman

DVD Release

In 2005, Synapse Films marketed an all-new, digitally remastered version of the film. Humorously included with the DVD are sticker-type "labels" of the Viper alcohol featured in the movie.

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