Street Trash (2024) Review

Street Trash (2024) Review

A group of misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.

Writer/director Ryan Kruger (FRIED BARRY) has reimagined the 1987 cult horror-comedy of the same name that was originally made by Jim Muro and Roy Frumkes. Many of the online reviews that I chanced upon when researching Kruger’s STREET TRASH failed to get that this is intended to be nothing more than pure dumb fun. Someone commented that their ten-year-old can write better dialogue proving that some are missing the point of Kruger’s flick by a mile.

This is one remake that I preferred to the original. It’s funnier, less one-note and keeps you ticking along nicely. Admittedly it does overdo the jokes about male genitalia but more than compensates for this with amusing references to other Eighties cult movies such as Carpenter’s THEY LIVE and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK along with Paul Verhoeven’s original ROBOCOP.

My recollection of the original flick was that it failed to make that much of an impression. I remember that it was gooey but aside from that nothing else stuck. This remake is also gooey but fortunately memorable too, it’s got a game cast, and most pleasing of all it uses old school prosthetics and opts for a throwback synth-score. Vulgar, trashy, and grotesque Kruger’s STREET TRASH is a welcome throwback to those days when filmmakers went afraid to be as gross and as juvenile as they can be.

Street Trash will be available on limited edition Blu-ray from 17th February. Pre order on HMV & Amazon here.

Watch trailer here: