Street Trash (2024)

November 20, 2024 1:21 PM

[TRAILER] A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city. A requel (sort of a remake/sort of a sequel) to the 1987 cult classic.

Starring Sean Cameron Michael, Donna Cormack Thomson, Joe Vaz, Lloyd Martinez Newkirk, Shuraigh Meyer, Jonathan Pienaar, Sidwell Ralitsoele, Ryan Kruger.

Written and directed by Ryan Kruger. Based on the 1987 film of the same name written by Roy Frumkes. Produced by James C. Williamson. Justin A. Martell. Matt Manjourides. Ryan Kruger. Marcelle du Toit. David Franciscus. Dylan Voogt. Edited by Stephen Du Plessis. Cinematography by Fabian Vettiger.Music by Ebenhaezer Smal.

Too early as of this writing for an RT score.

A Screambox original. Also streaming on Hoopla. JustWatch listing.

posted by DirtyOldTown (10 comments total)

The first few reviews I've seen are brutal. People like the goopy practical FX and not much else.

I've never seen the original, so I may be not the ideal reviewer.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:24 PM on November 20

I... didn't hate this? It's lurid, sophomoric, goofy trash.

But that seems to have been the assignment!

This is the kind of movie that has a parody of an old Jewish man who says things like gefilte and oy vey a lot but also explains in detail his theory about how Peter Pan is a pedophile and Captain Hook is the actual hero of Neverland. It has a disturbed man talking to his little blue imaginary friend, who has his penis out and is pissing on his foot. It has exploding heads and a severed penis.

It's vulgar and juvenile but in a mildly updated version of a very vintage 1980's way.

It's stupid but it does exactly what it sets out to do.

I laughed.

I don't think much/any of the satirical stuff they were trying to layer in lands though.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:26 PM on November 20

I would put this in a double bill with Peter Jackson's Bad Taste or Meet the Feebles, if that helps anyone calibrate.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:32 PM on November 20

The idea of a Street Trash remake is thoroughly bizarre to me, like a cover band dedicated to a shitty punk band that put out one novelty EP on cassette in 1985. I'm definitely going to watch it, but entirely out of morbid curiosity. But definitely, everyone should watch the real Street Trash.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:21 PM on November 20 [1 favorite]

I've never seen the original

It ain't the Mona Lisa I can assure you.

like a cover band dedicated to a shitty punk band that put out one novelty EP on cassette in 1985.

This is it. Street Trash is a classic of a kind of grotty horror from that era - goopy, simplistic, dumb, dated. Kind of like a less polished Troma film at times. Saying that it is not without entertainment value or heart - I mean I like it but as a frame of reference I also like Help Me... I'm Possessed.

I only saw the trailer for this last week so I was surprised that it has arrived so quickly. Anyone see their previous film Fried Barry? How does it compare to that?
posted by Ashwagandha at 7:33 AM on November 21 [1 favorite]

I can understand, conceptually, why people would wrinkle their nose at a remake/sequel to a movie like this. I would probably feel that way about a remake of, say, Basket Case.

Putting aside the decision to make it (which was inevitable, let's admit), it does also exist as its own object. I'd say that said object, if you are the kid of person who owns some Troma films and enjoys goopy FX, should give you a good/good enough time.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:45 AM on November 21

Oh, snap, it's the Fried Barry people? Come to think of it, that is kind of like a relatively big-budget, modern equivalent of something like Street Trash, i totally get this now.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 11:24 AM on November 21 [1 favorite]

I first watched (the original) Street Trash way back in the early 1990s with MeFi's own Shepherd. It was a spiritual experience that altered the way in which I interpreted movies as a form of communication.

If the new one doesn't have corpse-fucking and severed penis toss then I'm tapping out.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 5:13 PM on November 22

Oh, i thought this was terrific, honestly. But it's not for everyone, and it's something that could easily be mistaken for a dumb movie when in reality it's a middle-brow movie made by smart people who love dumb movies. The comparison to Bad Taste is dead on, but it's also a little like Turbo Kid or a (much) less clever Psycho Goreman in that it's a bit of a pastiche of a certain kind of sf/horror movie from the '80s...a little Troma, a little bit They Live...but updated so that it feels contemporary. I don't know, I don't want to oversell it, but I feel like people who are dogging it just don't really understand what they're watching.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:21 PM on November 24 [1 favorite]

It seems like we landed pretty much the same on this one, kfb.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:18 AM on November 25 [1 favorite]