How the ‘Street Trash’ Sequel Uses Nauseating Gore and ’80s Sleaze to Tell a Provocative Story About Homelessness

variety.com:

William Earl J. Michael Muro’s 1987 cult classic “Street Trash” is on the Mount Rushmore of “melt movies,” a sickening horror subgenre marked by bodies literally dissolving into goo, with skin peeling off and skeletons deconstructing as outlandishly as possible.

In the film, homeless people are poisoned and killed by a mysterious liquor named Tenafly Viper. “Fried Barry” writer and director Ryan Kruger has helmed a same-name sequel (out Tuesday on VOD via Cineverse) that keeps the gonzo practical effects as a group of charming homeless misfits battle against a fascist government actively trying to exterminate them with a gaseous version of Viper.

Kruger, who also co-wrote the movie and shot it in his native South Africa with producers Not the Funeral Home, spoke to Variety about balancing the message in the movie while still having fun, the difficulty of mopping up melted bodies and the possibility of a sequel.

It wasn’t my choice originally. The producers approached me after they saw “Fried Barry,” and a lot of people were randomly mentioning that I’d be good at this film.