- Year
- 1987
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Director
- J. Michael Muro
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- Corps à vidanges
Street Trash
People melt in primary colours. Tasteless, inventive, weirdly beautiful.
A cheap bottle of liquor called Viper melts anyone who drinks it, and the film follows the derelicts of a New York junkyard as they dissolve in eye-searing primary colours. It is tasteless, anarchic and weirdly beautiful, gross-out horror as pure downtown-80s attitude.
Beneath the melting-hobo gags is a grimy portrait of Reagan-era New York, and the effects, all neon slime, are inventive on no money. It offends deliberately and often.
Trash cinema that knows exactly what it is and commits totally.
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