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Name: Freaky Tales
Released: 2025-4-4
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne

Freaky Tales

R
1h 47m
2025

75%

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Set in 1987 Oakland, Freaky Tales is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters - an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector - on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles. Executive produced by hip-hop pioneer Too $hort, and featuring an all-star ensemble including Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, and Tom Hanks, this pulpy blend of explosive action, edgy humor, gory kills, and sly twists and turns makes for one wild ride.

Director:

Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden

Producer:

Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Jelani Johnson, Poppy Hanks

Writer:

Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden

Cast:

Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Tom Hanks

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Critics Consensus: Bold, funny, and overall entertaining, Freaky Tales is a vibrantly well-acted period piece that makes up in style what it lacks in narrative substance.

Reviews

The Treatment (Substack)

Charlotte Simmons

The nutritious thrust of Freaky Tales is how — amidst the camp, combat, Nazi-stomping, and supernatural twinge — it frontloads an ode to personal power while insisting on that power’s presence within all of us.

Boden and Fleck are so passionate about the cult classics of yesteryear that, in their quest to create their own, they end up with a product closer to cosplay, even if it has the right intentions for the times we live in. [Full review in Spanish]

Even though it periodically loses narrative focus and flaunts its eccentricities in ways that are more self-satisfied than subtle, “Freaky Tales” — almost inexplicably — turns out to be a delicious slice of chaotic weirdness.

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Battleship Pretension

David Bax