What I like about "Street Trash" is its attitude and fearlessness. These guys just did not care. They were making a movie on zero-budget and still trying to have as much gore and shock-horror as they could make. They succeeded. It is absolutely mental...
Down one of the backstreets your mother told you to stay away from, take a left and you'll find yourself on the corner of wherever in the hell this film takes place. There is a liquor store and a junkyard, and a whole lot of crazy. There is a hobo infestation in this part of town, and they keep the drink-store in business. A disturbed Vietnam War veteran named Bronson has set himself up as King of the hobos in the local junkyard. They are a formidable gang, until the proprietor of the local liquor store comes across an old crate full of bottles of "Viper", some strange beverage, that he decides to sell for a dollar a bottle.
The hobos love it... but for some reason, they don't come back the next day. A wonderfully unhinged cop - who is like a cross between an action hero, a mafia hitman and a serial killer - is on the case, and meanwhile, in the junkyard, the hobos slowly being picked off one-by-one by the new "Viper" drink, fight amongst themselves and terrorise anyone who passes by. One of them finds himself in bother when he messes with the wrong woman - the girlfriend of a gangster - and this all comes to a head as this misadventure soon involves the unhinged cop.
For a low-budget, the gore and look of this film is quite good. It does not have that cheap looking or grainy camera-work. So the cinematography is good in that regard as it is well-shot. That acting is what you would expect, but I have to give mention to Bill Chepil as the unhinged cop. I really enjoyed his performance. Unfortunately, he was never in anything before, or after this film. This is his one acting credit, at least according to IMDb.
Down one of the backstreets your mother told you to stay away from, take a left and you'll find yourself on the corner of wherever in the hell this film takes place. There is a liquor store and a junkyard, and a whole lot of crazy. There is a hobo infestation in this part of town, and they keep the drink-store in business. A disturbed Vietnam War veteran named Bronson has set himself up as King of the hobos in the local junkyard. They are a formidable gang, until the proprietor of the local liquor store comes across an old crate full of bottles of "Viper", some strange beverage, that he decides to sell for a dollar a bottle.
The hobos love it... but for some reason, they don't come back the next day. A wonderfully unhinged cop - who is like a cross between an action hero, a mafia hitman and a serial killer - is on the case, and meanwhile, in the junkyard, the hobos slowly being picked off one-by-one by the new "Viper" drink, fight amongst themselves and terrorise anyone who passes by. One of them finds himself in bother when he messes with the wrong woman - the girlfriend of a gangster - and this all comes to a head as this misadventure soon involves the unhinged cop.
For a low-budget, the gore and look of this film is quite good. It does not have that cheap looking or grainy camera-work. So the cinematography is good in that regard as it is well-shot. That acting is what you would expect, but I have to give mention to Bill Chepil as the unhinged cop. I really enjoyed his performance. Unfortunately, he was never in anything before, or after this film. This is his one acting credit, at least according to IMDb.