STREET TRASH Review: Ryan Kruger’s Audacious Cult Classic Reimagining
Lightbulb Film Distribution opens Street Trash in UK cinemas on January 10, and on digital and Blu-Ray on February 17. Straight horror isn’t usually my thing, so my only experience with J. Michael Muro’s 1987 cult classic, Street Trash, is an official trailer on YouTube. I watched it to have something to help gauge a little more the latest iteration directed by Ryan Kruger which, fairly, easily takes plenty of its cues from the original hit, and quite possibly delivers the goods on multiple ends. Kruger’s Street Trash lands us squarely in a dystopian version of Cape Town in South Africa, where we Ronald (Sean Cameron Michael), and his ragtag group of homeless streetmates, along with the newest addition of Alex (Donna Cormack-Thomson) who he rescues after she’s confronted by henchmen working for the Rat King. The two, along with fellow homeless mates Chef (Joe Vaz), 2-Bit (Gary Green), Wors […]