Street Trash @ Nitehawk w/ Roy Frumkes 2/17 & 2/18

February 16, 2012 Matt Desiderio Comic Book Movies, Horror, Movies and TV, Theater Comments Off

This Friday and Saturday’s Midnight Movie at the Nitehawk Cinema is gonna be a sticky one… and that ain’t spilt soda.

Street Trash screened off of 35mm, preceded by Swirlee a short featuring James Lorinz with Roy Frumkes & Rocco Simonelli in person for a Q&A hosted by me! All thanks to the good folks over at Basic Cable Classics, what more could you ask for?

TWO MIDNIGHT SHOWS. Friday 2/17 and Saturday 2/18.

Both screenings will be preceded by the short SWIRLEE w/writer Rocco Simonelli on hand for a Q&A. Roy Frumkes, writer of STREET TRASH will introduce the film.

STREET TRASH (1987)
… In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in pre-gentrified Brooklyn, two young runaways live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard. The most lethal threat to the boys is the case of Tenafly Viper in Ed’s liquor store window. The stuff’s forty years old, and it’s gone real bad. Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds… and it’s only a dollar a bottle!!

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, “R” rated horror flicks and endless, unoriginal remakes.

This special 35mm presentation will be preceded by a super-rare screening of the completely unavailable SWIRLEE (2000), featuring the nightmarish misadventures of Mr. Softee, the man with an ice cream cone head, starring David Caruso.

DVD and Poster giveaways! Roy Frumkes & Rocco Simonelli in person for Q&A!

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Matt D has been a manager, buyer and event coordinator at Forbidden Planet since 2005 or maybe it was 2006. Who can remember? We didn't even have computers back then. A native New Yorker from the borough of Queens, raised on Sunday Funnies, Monster Movies and Rock N' Roll. What better place to end up than Forbidden Planet where he can use his position to influence the city's pop culture. A responsibility he takes seriously more now than ever due to New York's consistent change for the worse. The last thing NYC needs is another cafe or bank so thank whatever it is you believe in that Forbidden Planet is here to stay. Beyond the walls of FP, Matt is a publicly recognized expert in cult and horror cinema with a focus on VHS. He is the founder of Horror Boobs a collective that books screenings and distributes weirdo films, the producer of the documentary Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS collector, the publisher of the Blood Video zine, and is regrettably responsible for resurrecting the career of schizophrenic Shot-on Video director Carl J Sukenick. E-mail him at Mattdfpnyc@gmail.com Follow him on various social media at @horrorboobs