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Back when I was a teenager, during the roarin’ 1980s, I picked up the latest issue of monster magazine Fangoria. My intentions were to read up on the latest A Nightmare On Elm Street sequel but it wasn’t long before returning home with my glossy treasure that I stopped and forgot all about the triumphant return of actress Heather Langenkamp to her old haunted address on Elm Street. Instead I sat transfixed as I perused an article about an upcoming micro-budget film called Street Trash. The article per se isn’t what held my interest (I was going through my blood and gore special effects stage, words and letters be damned), so I didn’t take the time to study the story of the movie about a contaminated case of liquor which wreaked bloody havoc on the bums stewing around the old junkyards of Brooklyn (pardon that sly sleight-of-hand plot synopsis, Dear and Constant Reader). What I did study, however, was the cacophony of gory full-color photos which accompanied that write-up and with those as my guiding North Star, I quickly determined that this was a movie made precisely for my fourteen-year old sensibilities.
Fast forward thirty-seven years later (gulp!) and it looks as if Street Trash left an even bigger impression than my fanciful mind could ever have predicted back in those hazy days. According to our Anthony Timpone fans over at Variety, no less than a full-fledged reboot of that horror-comedy is coming soon to a television screen near you.
Production house Cineverse has scored exclusive North American rights for the so-scary-it’s- funny cult hit Street Trash. Directing this upcoming opus will be Ryan Kruger.
In a press release announcing this new take on an old cheesy classic, Kruger said that “Our reimagining of Street Trash takes place in Cape Town, South Africa where the growing divide between rich and poor has changed the world as we know it. I was a huge fan of the original ‘Street Trash’ when I was a kid, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce a whole new generation to the melted gonzo goodness that made the original such a classic.”
The film’s handy-dandy logline goes into the nuts and bolts as to what the new Street Trash is about: “Street Trash follows a group of homeless misfits as they fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.”
To keep that authentic Street Trash vibe, Jim Muro,the director of the original film, will be returning as an executive producer alongside cohort Roy Frumkes. Outside of Muro returning to direct, that bit of salient news should make most purists of the original film happy indeed.
Look for the revamped Street Trash to unveil its wares on the Screambox streaming service sometime in 2024.
