
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE MOVIE

Upon its release it didn’t make it to any theater in my neighborhood, so I had to wait till it was released on video to see it for myself. On August 21, 1987, a live-action film based on the card characters was released. When it was time for them to get their own movie, I was all in. Bizarre Holidays (0) disg-Race to the White House (0) GPK Video Sets (0) GPK Posters (0. As a child of the 80’s, I was a fan/collector of the “Garbage Pail Kids” trading cards. We can't find products matching the selection.
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE SERIES
Near the end of the film, she and Wally were vomited on by Valerie Vomit. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie was released in theatres in 1987 (around the time the original ninth series was released) in order to capitalize on the success.

She bullies and mugs Dodger and just about anyone else younger and smaller who crosses her path. Blythe is a member of Juices gang of teenage bullies and is also Wallys girlfriend. If you are wondering why this film is being released under Shout! Factory’s “Scream” banner, then you have clearly never seen this truly horrific piece of 80’s cinema. Blythe is a character from the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.

Once the trend took off, Topps took to mass producing the gruesome cards.Arriving on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray this week is 1987’s “The Garbage Pail Kids Movie”, courtesy of Scream Factory. According to fansite Garbage Pail Kids Online, the first several series were produced in small quantities. Dodger (Played by Mackenzie Astin) is a young fourteen-year-old boy who was bullied by Juice. Unfortunately, the film did very poorly it was a box office failure and got universally negative reviews. They became a must-have item for kids to trade on the playground and were banned from many schools (which, of course, only added to their popularity).Īll told, there were more than fifteen different series of cards produced in the '80s. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie was released in theatres in 1987 (around the time the original ninth series was released) in order to capitalize on the success of the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. When they first hit store shelves in the mid-80s, the cards quickly surpassed sales expectations. He collaborated with cartoonist Mark Newgarden, artist John Pound, and various others on the final product.

The concept was the brainchild of legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman ("Maus"). In the late 80s, a new kind of bubblegum card, the Garbage Pail kids, featuring caricature paintings, of ugly, unclean moppets with yukky names such as Greaser Greg and Valerie Vomit, Windy Winston, and Foul Phil, each with an offensive habit, found popularity. They may be gross, but people can't look away. Garbage Pail Kids reference website on the planet. Earlier this week, online lookups for " garbage pail kids" jumped 32% and related searches for " garbage pail kids movie" surged 157%. Based on the wildly popular and irreverent trading cards, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie stars Mackenzie Astin (Iron Will, Wyatt Earp) as a perfectly nice. Little is known about the film, but searches on Yahoo! are already on the rise.
