Street Trash (1987) poster
1987 · horror · comedy

Street Trash

Directed by J. Michael Muro1h 40m1987
ElsewhereIMDb5.912kRT64%TMDB6.1332
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.

Our read · Street Trash (1987) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want grotesque homeless-splatter comedy that relishes its own bad taste.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 3attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencenuditydrug usecringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if melting-body gore, castration shocks, or Vietnam-vet cruelty offends.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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