Street Trash (1987)

Directed by

J. Michael Muro

Genre

splatter film, comedy horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 333 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Brooklyn liquor store sells old toxic alcohol that makes homeless men melt and die. A cop looks into the deaths while a gang of homeless Vietnam veterans terrorizes the neighborhood.

gorydarkly comicabsurdgrittychaoticretrooutrageouscheesyexploitation-style

What happens

Street Trash is a 1987 American black comedy body horror film directed by J. Michael Muro (credited as Jim Muro). It won the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film. The film has acquired a status as a cult classic independent horror-comedy and is one of a number of splatter films known as "melt movies". In the film, a liquor store in Brooklyn starts selling cheap alcoholic beverages to local hobos. The beverages date to the 1920s, and are actually poisonous. While a local cop investigates the series of unexplained deaths, homeless veterans of the Vietnam War group together as a dangerous gang. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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