10 Outrageously Violent Films You Need To See

9. Street Trash (1987)

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 forgot to give us sympathetic characters, or even a plot. Instead, what we get is a series of loosely connected, hit-or-miss skits. 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. Where the film loses its footing is in making its characters as vile as possible, all in the name of setting up the next gross-€˜em-out gag. There€™s necrophilia, casual racism, police brutality, misogyny and, in the film€™s biggest misstep, gang rape. After following Fred (Mike Lackey) for half the movie, the viewer expects more from their €œhero€ than to see him kidnap and rape a gangster€™s wife. That floats a little too close to what Waters called €œbad bad taste€, but then again, Waters loved the movie, so judge for yourself.