- Street Trash
Infobox_Film
name = Street Trash
writer =Roy Frumkes
starring =Mike Lackey ,R. L. Ryan ,James Lorinz
director = James Muro
producer =Roy Frumkes
distributor =Street Trash Joint Venture
released =September 16 ,1987
runtime = 102 min.
language = English
budget = | music =Rick Ulfik
awards =Silver Raven
imdb_id = 0094057"Street Trash" is a 1987 horror-
comedy film directed byJ. Michael Muro (credited as Jim Muro). It won the Silver Raven at theBrussels International Festival of Fantasy Film . The film has acquired a status as acult classic horror-comedy and is one of a number of movies known as "melt" movies.Roy Frumkes wrote the screenplay. In an NBR profile 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." [ [http://www.nbrmp.org/features/RoyFrumkes.cfm Roy Frumkes' interview with the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures] ]The movie was based on a ten minute student film directed J. Michael Muro and starring Mike Lackey.
ynopsis
The owner of a liquor store in lower Manhattan finds a case of cheap wine ("Tenafly Viper") in his basement. It's over sixty 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. At the same time, an overzealous cop is trying to get to the bottom of all the deaths. The movie is littered with darkly comedic deaths and injuries. 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
*Marc Sferrazza - Kevin
*Jane Arakawa - Wendy
*Nicole Potter - Winette
*Pat Ryan Jr. - Frank Schnizer
*Clarenze Jarmon - Burt
*Bernard Perlman - Wizzy
*Miriam Zucker - Drunken Wench
*M. D'Jango Krunch - Ed
*James Lorinz - Doorman
*Julian Davis - The HusbandDVD Releases
In 2005,
Synapse Films marketed an all-new, digitally remastered version of the film. Humorously included with the DVD were sticker-type "labels" of the Viper wine featured in the movie.In 2006 a second release by Synapse Films was announced, featuring the documentary Meltdown Memoirs by writer Roy Frumkes, the feature includes interviews with most of the surviving cast and crew with the exception of Jane Arakawa. The DVD was released September 26, 2006.
References
External links
*imdb title|title=Street Trash|id=0094057
* [http://www.synapse-films.com/shopping_cart/street_trash.htm Synapse films page]
* [http://www.dreamlogic.net/archives/dvd-review-street-trash Review of the film]
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