slime city.
Ultra low budget melt movie that was shot around the same time as Street Trash. In fact Jim Muro did some steadycam work here for free. Sadly some delays, including the director and a lot of his team working on Brain Damage for Frank Hennenlotter meant the film wasn't completed until the bottom had fallen out of the independent horror market and the film failed to take off.
For me it's not as good a film as Street Trash or Brain Damage but is still worth checking out. It's almost minimalist approach to shooting makes it feel like a Roberta Findlay flick. It's got plenty of urban low budget charm like a lot of the underground horror coming out at the time mixed in with a 'plastic reality' approach to the human body that gives it a strange dream like quality. Sure it's got faults, it'd be hard not to given how cheaply it was made but it all adds to it's underground charms. If you like Toxic avenger, street Trash, c.h.u.d. or any of the other low budgeted sleaze that found it's place in home video this ones well worth checking out.
slime city massacre.
A 2010 'sequel' to slime city with cult icon Debbie Rochon. It has a post apocalyptic feel to proceedings set in a new York where a dirty bomb has gone off. A couple looking to escape the city end up in an abandoned warehouse where they meet another couple also looking to survive. They discover the elixir and ectoplasm from the first film and pretty soon find themselves turning into slime creatures.
This one feels like a real throwback to the sort of outrageous DTV material that was coming out around the time of the original slime city. It even has a throwaway homage to basket case and street trash in one scene.
Both films appear on the DVD and blu-ray releases and are well worth checking out if you haven't seen them yet.
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