Film Review: Street Trash (Ryan Kruger, 2024)

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Film Review: Street Trash (Ryan Kruger, 2024)

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12 Nov 2024

by

Paul

1987’s Street Trash, directed by J. Michael Muro, is crass, gory, and pretty much designed to offend. Its wacky blend of dark comedy, tasteless jokes, and over the top body horror has earned the film cult status among fans with its most memorable scene involving a group of homeless men playing catch with a man’s severed genitals – classy stuff indeed.

Essentially, Street Trash is the epitome of a “you couldn’t make this today” kind of film. Except they did.

The 2024 edition of Street Trash takes the basic premise of the original, adding in an entirely new cast of characters and a more cohesive plot (though it is still all a bit loosey goosey) and definitely a bit more of a social conscience. It’s still plenty crass though – in a nod to the original, this one also features a severed penis. Gotta keep things classy after all.

In this version, writer/director Ryan Kruger keeps what worked from the original film (the concept of extremely expired booze that melts people, the gleefully gory practical effects, and the overall anarchic nature) and more or less discards the rest, crafting a brand new story that works as a re-imagining of the basic concept and could conceivably even serve as a sequel to the 1987 version.

Set in a dystopian version of South Africa wherein the divide between the haves and the have nots seems even greater than it is today, Street Trash tells the story of a rag tag group of homeless rebels who discover that the government is not just apathetic towards their struggles but is in fact actively trying to kill them through the use of a poison. This poison is derived from Tenafly Viper, the discount booze from the original film that melts people down into colourful puddles of goo. Kruger brings a bit of political commentary into the mix as we follow this group of underdogs rising up to take down the corrupt mayor and his rich buddies and trying to avoid getting melted while the audience is treated to some goofy jokes and comical gross out moments along the way.

Street Trash is produced in collaboration with Vinegar Syndrome Pictures by Not The Funeral Home and is available through various streaming platforms on Nov. 19.

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