03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
‘Freaky Tales' is a four-part love letter to '80s trash cinema
If you were alive and adolescent and wired on junk culture in the 1980s, 'Freaky Tales' will have you counting the pop references until you run out of fingers and toes. 'The Warriors' and 'Scanners,' 'Repo Man' and 'Liquid Sky,' martial arts action and grindhouse revenge schlock — it's all here, stitched together with static-y VHS splices, a doomy synth score and a lot of patently fraudulent blood.
