Synapse Films and Roy Frumkes Finally Bring You The STREET TRASH: SPECIAL MELTDOWN EDITION On DVD This September!

In Synapse Films’ entire history, no film has generated as much excitement and fan frenzy as STREET TRASH. When we initially announced acquisition of the title in 2001, we promised a full-fledged special edition that would make everyone happier than a pig in slop. STREET TRASH writer/producer Roy Frumkes soon began work on THE MELTDOWN MEMOIRS, a comprehensive new documentary on the making of STREET TRASH and of New York independent filmmaking in the 1980s, and fans eagerly waited for its completion. It’s taken a while, but the STREET TRASH SPECIAL MELTDOWN EDITION is finally here and is easily Synapses most ambitious DVD to date. If you picked up last years critically praised movie-only edition you got but a mere taste of what this 2-disc set delivers in spades.

In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways eighteen-year-old Fred (Mike Lackey) and his younger brother, Kevin (Mark Sferrazza), live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard. Fred is burnt-out by the forces that destroyed his family life, whereas Kevin, having missed much of their childhood trauma, yearns to get back into society and lead a normal life. The most lethal threat to the boys is the case of Tenafly Viper in Eds liquor store widow. Ed found the cheapo wine behind a wall in his basement. The stuffs forty years old, and its gone real bad. Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds! And it’s only a dollar a bottle!! The bums are lining up for their deaths like moths at a flame, and Fred standing right there amongst them.

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STREET TRASH is the subversive cult classic horror-comedy that rode the last wave of super-gore in the late 80s before the curtain fell on such outrageous material and we entered an era of “safe”, PG-13 rated horror flicks and endless, unoriginal remakes.

Synapse Films is proud to present the 2-DVD Special Meltdown Edition of the 80s gore classic, STREET TRASH.  Over four years in the making, this 2-DVD set contains the amazing two-hour documentary, THE MELTDOWN MEMOIRS, directed by STREET TRASH writer/producer Roy Frumkes.

This All-New 2-DVD Special Meltdown Edition Includes:

- Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1) Transfer From the Original Camera Negatives

- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and Original 2.0 Mono Soundtrack

- Two Audio Commentaries Featuring Producer Roy Frumkes and Director James Muro

- THE MELTDOWN MEMOIRS - All-New 2-Hour Documentary The History and Making of STREET TRASH!

- STREET TRASH - The Original 16mm Short Film that Inspired the Movie

- The Long-Lost, Never-Before-Seen STREET TRASH Promotional Teaser

- Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery

- Original Theatrical Trailer