This isn’t nostalgia.
This is a cinematic crime scene.
WTF Is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie?!
In 1987, Hollywood turned gross-out trading cards into a live-action kids movie - and somehow thought it was a good idea.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie is one of the strangest studio films ever released: animatronic trash monsters, body fluid humor, musical numbers and absolutely no understanding of what kids (or parents) actually wanted.
In this video, Kyle's breaking down:
• How this movie got made
• Why it failed instantly
• And how it somehow became a cult classic anyway
This isn’t nostalgia.
This is a cinematic crime scene.
🎬 Cult movies
📼 VHS nostalgia
🤢 Practical effects gone wrong
💥 One of the weirdest kids movies of the 1980s
WTF Is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie?!
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