Street Trash

Local title
Tänavakõnts
Director
Ryan Kruger
Country
South Africa, USA
Year
2024
Festival
HÕFF 2025
Programme
HÕFF For Freaks
Genre
comedy, horror
Subject
violence, individual vs society, homelessness, death, corruption, dystopia

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

Writer-director Ryan Kruger (“Fried Barry”) revives the gross-out exploitation of the ‘melt movie’, but also throws in shades of “RoboCop”, “They Live” and “The Warriors”. Its tagline “melt the rich” perfectly sums up the added action plot: the unhoused misfits will most definitely take revenge on the cartoonishly villainous mayor, as he exterminates every unhoused person in the city, one melting body at a time.

While the 1987 original was written “to democratically offend every group on the planet”, here bad taste has some limits – with immodesty favoured over immorality. Subtle it is not, but there’s a wholesomeness to the affection this remake has for its central characters – though much more, of course, for its gore. The beating, melting, exploding heart of the film, these sequences – in which people are spectacularly eviscerated from the inside out – keep coming, and keep pushing the threshold. There’s something for everyone (to be grossed out by): torn-off faces, severed genitals and a horny, foul-mouthed imaginary friend. And that’s all in the first ten minutes. All guts, so gory.

Director
Ryan Kruger
Screenwriter
Ryan Kruger, James C. Williamson, Roy Frumkes, J. Michael Muro
Cast
Sean Cameron Michael, Donna Cormack-Thomson, Joe Vaz
Producer
David Franciscus, Matt Manjourides
Cinematographer
Fabian Vettiger
Production Design
Alto de Kock
Editing
Stephen Du Plessis
Music
Ebenhaezer Smal
Production
Stage 5 Films, Not the Funeral Home, Protagonist
World sales
The Coven
Runtime
Language
Afrikaans, English
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Rotterdam

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