The captivatingly strange movie is set in 1987 Oakland, Calif., and is structured episodically — like “Trilogy of Terror” or “The Twilight Zone Movie” — in four parts. Those frightening comparisons, though — and the movie’s title, actually — are misleading. “Freaky Tales” isn’t horror at all, but rather a reference to the rapper Too Short’s 1987 hip-hop song of the same name… As it happens, Too Short is a major character, as are other real-life Cali figures: the girl duo Danger Zone and Golden State Warrior Sleepy Floyd. They’re whisked into a violent, occasionally rousing, fantasy in which true events merge boisterously with the ludicrous. – NY Post

“You will lose count of the number of Reagan-era cult movies and video-rental staples that Fleck and Boden reference, though a partial list would include Repo Man, Scanners, The Fury, The Warriors, Dirty Harry, Beat Street, and The Last Dragon.” – Rolling Stone