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The worst thing about this film is how badly it aged over the years, more so than most films. The plot was wafer thin and nothing that you couldn't see on a Saturday morning cartoon but it was the novelty of seeing The Garbage Pail Kids come to life on the big screen that kids wanted to see. After years of being produced on trading cards packaged with gum this written & directed film by Rodney Amateau took audiences by storm in 1987. It did so poorly that Amateau has yet to direct another film.

Even as a kid when I saw it it was bad. This could've been a cult classic if one, they would've used different characters and two, gotten rid of the whole sewing costumes angles which frankly I still don't understand because why would the Garbage Pail Kids ever be such great seamstresses? It's a scary sight to see Greaser Greg sewing.

The whole film was ludicrous and the only good thing about the film is that at the time John Carl Buechler's creature effects for the kids was actually something to see. He's also responsible for the creature designs of the GHOULIES films, CELLER DWELLER, HALLOWEEN 4, and CARNOSAUR, to name a few and even though none of his work is on par with Industrial Light & Magic or Stan Winston his designs suit the low budgets of his films and elevate them above the other dreck.

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