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Expanded from a short film about homeless alcoholics who begin to melt after consuming a liquor named Viper, Street Trash tries so hard to be different that its makers aren't interested in giving us sympathetic characters, or even a plot. Instead, what we get is a series of loosely connected skits, and the film's all the better for it.

There’s a sequence where people play catch with a severed penis that’s as funny/tasteless as anything filmed by John Waters, and James Lorinz (Frankenhooker) is amusing as a mob doorman. Being of a product of the late 80s, the movie goes out of its way to make its characters as vile as possible, but it's all in the name of setting up the next gross-‘em-out gag. There’s necrophilia, casual racism, police brutality, misogyny and, in a sequence likely to shock the unprepared, gang rape.

After following Fred (Mike Lackey) for half the movie, certain viewers will expect more from their “hero” than to see him kidnap and rape a gangster’s wife. That floats a little too close to what Waters called “bad bad taste”, but Waters loved the movie so judge for yourself.