In this festive period of indulgence, it's only right to get together with like-minded friends and family to watch some really terrible-good movies. Y'know, the ones that you inexplicably love despite a lack of many - or indeed, any - redeeming features.
Behold! What follows is a list of our favourite 'guilty pleasures'. For a round-up of some of the finest moments from these magnificent gifts of unintentional hilarity, check out the video immediately below. You won't regret it.*
*you may experience minor regret
For those not fortunate enough to grow up in the '80s, The Garbage Pail Kids (or the Garbage Gang Kids in Australia and New Zealand), were a series of trading cards featuring characters with gross ailments who bore more than a little resemblance to popular toy line The Cabbage Patch Kids. In '87, a Garbage Pail Kids movie was released, and it was definitively terrible. The Kids in question were dwarf actors wearing terrifyingly immovable rubber masks, forced to sort of bumble around while singing tinny songs about working together and friendship in a grim attempt at satire. It remains one of the most hypnotically so-wrong-it's-right 'family films' to come out of a decade with a notoriously liberal approach to the genre.
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