Street Trash [Special Meltdown Edition] [Blu-ray]

Director: Jim Muro, James Muro Jim Muro

Overview

This shocker will most likely appeal to fans of pitch-black beyond-bad-taste comedy. Others may find it highly offensive and gory as it chronicles the fate of homeless Brooklyn winos when they get into some tainted wine and begin melting into slimy puddles of human goo. The wine, called "Tenafly Viper," is being sold by the owner of a liquor store who found it lying around in his basement and sells it to the bums for a buck. It is later revealed that the wine was deliberately spiked by the government.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/09/2013
UPC:	0654930315095
Original Release:	1987
Rating:	NR
Source:	Synapse Films
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:42:00
Sales rank:	11,423

Special Features

High-definition transfer from the original camera negative; 5.1 surround remix created specifically for home theatre environments; Two audio commentaries featuring writer/producer Roy Frumkes and director James Muro; The meltdown memoirs - feature length documentary on the history and making of Street Trash, featuring rare footage and interviews with the cast and crew!; The original Street Trash 16 mm film that inspired the movie; The original Street Trash promotional teaser; Original theatrical trailer; All-new Blu-ray exclusives: Jane Arakawa video interview and deleted scenes!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bill Chepil	Bill the Cop
Vic Noto	Bronson
Mike Lackey	Fred
Mark Sferrazza	Kevin, Fred's Brother
Jane Arakawa	Wendy
Nicole Potter	Winette
R.L. Ryan	Frank Schnizer,Actor
Clarenze Jarmon	Burt
Bernard Perlman	Wizzy
Miriam Zucker	Drunken Wench
M. D'Jango Krunch	Ed
James Lorinz	Doorman
Morty Storm	Black Suit
Tony Darrow	Nick Duran
Frank Farel	Dismembered Derelict
Roy Frumkes	Melted Businessman
Vic Notto	Actor
Rick Ulfik	Composer

Technical Credits

Roy Frumkes

Jennifer Aspinall	Special Effects
Roy Frumkes	Producer,Screenwriter
Jim Muro	Director
Edward Muro Sr.	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Director

Editorial Reviews

The horror-video boom of the 1980s unleashed many a gruesome spectacle on fans during that time, but few were as wild or relentless as Street Trash. It's definitely not a film for the sensitive; the plot and the characters are equally grimy, there's an accent on bizarre, gory spectacle, and the film has a seriously dark sense of humor (topics like rape, castration, and necrophilia are played for laughs). That said, anyone with a taste for cinema's wild side might enjoy Street Trash because it delivers the trashy goods and does so with a surprisingly artful touch. Roy Frumkes' script offers a surprisingly complex ensemble narrative that is packed with raunchy, endlessly quotable dialogue. Better yet, director Jim Muro frames the action with a dazzling eye for color and motion; he and cinematographer David Sperling make brilliant use of the steadycam to give the film a kinetic visual pulse. Street Trash is also unusually well-acted for a low-budget indie-horror effort. Everybody gives solid, charismatic performances, but the true scene-stealers are Troma film vet R.L. Ryan as a sleazy auto-junkyard owner and Tony Darrow and James Lorinz as a mobster/doorman duo whose bickering is laugh-out-loud funny. The final hook is the special effects; the "wino meltdown" scenes are some of the most colorful and inventive gore spectacles ever captured on film. In short, Street Trash is not for all tastes, but it will reward the brave viewer with an unforgettable walk on horror's wild side.

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