#1154 Halloween 2019: Street Trash (1987)

Old stash of weird booze found in the basement of a liquor store turns the unfortunate ones drinking it into gooey liquid in Street Trash, an experience of a movie to say the least.

The main focus of the movie are naturally the imaginative death scenes that are unlike anything else seen on the screen and anyone interested in trashy effects will find them to warrant watching the movie by themselves. The time between these death scenes is filled with all kinds of imaginable filth from the dark side of mankind: violence, death, chauvinism, necrophilia, castration and rape, in a some kind of loose comic wrapper.

What differentiates the movie from similar trashy films is the quality of the production. The film looks genuinely good and the camera an FX work is solid. All this makes Street Trash a freak of a cult movie that Is incomparable to anything else I’ve seen to date and as such it’s one hard movie to recommend for anything else but to quench your curiosity.

Be aware though, whether you enjoy Street Trash or not might boil down to the state of your intoxication and/or level of medication.

80s-o-meter: 76%

Total: 57%

#1153 Moving Violations (1985)

Moving Violations is a film known for most as the only film release featuring John Murray, Bill Murray’s baby brother.

While John is no Bill, he actually fares surprisingly well here. While the constant wise cracking is right there on the verge of getting tiresome, I can imagine how annoying it might’ve gotten in someone other’s hands. But John Murray does not carry the movie through, the movie actually does it all by itself.

A comedy in the vein of Police Academy about bad drivers forced to attend to a traffic school has some actually funny moments throughout and ends up a well above average comedy in the best tradition of the 80s, including the ending that wraps up the movie in a more satisfying way than almost any other comedy out there.

80s-o-meter: 95%

Total: 85%