10 Weirdest Ideas Turned Into Horror Movies
2. Street Trash
‘Melt-horror’ is one of the most underappreciated genres of trashy horror cinema, of which the most popular films are Body Melt, The Stuff, and Hollywood cinematographer James Michael Muro’s directorial debut - Street Trash. Street Trash is the epitome of 80s silly cinema with a plot about homeless people melting into pretty colors when they drink a volatile bottle of Viper, which was found covered in dust in the back room of a booze shop.
That’s not all, however, as the plot about volatile booze is but one element of an entire story that lays into every single cliché a trashy 80s movie can deliver: a plot about a vigilante cop hunting down a Vietnam Vet who has a knife carved out of a human femur, a love story about a young couple kept apart by an ugly, overweight, overzealous and predatory boss who wants the young woman to himself, and a story about a valet who gets in hot water with a wise-guy mafia don because the don’s mistress got herself kidnapped on the valet’s watch.
It’s a mad movie from beginning to end that’s both incomprehensible and highly enjoyable. There’s so much going on here that one is left asking themselves ‘what the hell did I just watch?’ once the film reaches the end credits.