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Street Trash
Why this pick
Matches its filthy, proudly low-budget splatter spirit: a toxic liquor turns a street-level freak show into neon-colored body-horror mayhem with vicious absurdist humor.
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MOVIE1984 1h 22m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Melvin Ferd (Mark Torgl) is a stereotypical 98-pound weakling who works as a janitor at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey, where the customers—particularly Bozo (Gary Schneider), Slug (Robert Prichard), Wanda (Jennifer Babtist) and Julie (Cindy Manion)—harass him constantly. His tormentors get more and more violent, even deliberately killing a young boy on a bike with their car and taking photos of the carnage afterward. One day, they trick Melvin into wearing a pink tutu and kissing a sheep. He is chased around the health club and out a second story window. He lands in a drum of toxic waste, which sets him on fire. After running down the street in a ball of flames, Melvin douses the flames in his bathtub. The chemicals cause him to transform into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Pat Ryan
Mayor Peter Belgoody
Dick Martinsen
Officer O'Clancy
Michael Russo
Rico
Andrew Craig
Fred
Ryan Sexton
Johnny
Rick Collins
Bully
Marisa Tomei
Health Club Girl
Patrick Kilpatrick
Leroy