{"id":39691,"date":"2025-08-22T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39691"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:33:27","slug":"freaky-tales-2024-starring-pedro-pascal-ben-mendelsohn-and-jay-ellis-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39691","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Freaky Tales&#8221; (2024) starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn and Jay Ellis \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z082225zview_freakytales.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Freaky Tales <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Too $hort, Jack Champion<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Hanks<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>In 1987, Oakland was hella freaky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Freaky Tales<\/em> features four fictionalized interconnected stories about real events that took place in Oakland, California in 1987.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Strength in Numbers: The Gilman Strikes Back&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>A group of skinheads attacks kids attending a punk rock nightclub.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the first time.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be the last.\u00a0 But the kids have had enough.\u00a0 Next time they&#8217;ll be prepared to strike back.\u00a0 Hard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Fight the Feeling&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Two young women, Barbie and Entice leave the punk rock nightclub just before the skinheads attack.\u00a0 Barbie and Entice are rappers who preform under the stage name Danger Zone.\u00a0 They want to be stars.\u00a0 And they will get an opportunity&#8230; if they can rise to the occasion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Born to Mack&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Clint wants to end his life of crime.\u00a0 His wife is pregnant and will deliver his first child soon.\u00a0 Unfortunately Clints bosses want him to perform one last job &#8212; something to do with a pro basketball player.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;The Legend of Sleepy Floyd&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; While <em>Sleepy Floyd<\/em>, a pro basketball player, is having a record setting game, his house is being robbed by a group of skinheads.\u00a0 During the robbery his girlfriend is murdered.\u00a0 Little do the skinheads know, they picked on the wrong guy.\u00a0 Sleepy not only has <em>super<\/em> martial arts skills, he has <em>super<\/em>natural powers.\u00a0 And he will have his revenge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Freaky<\/em> Tales has it&#8217;s moments, but it was just a little too, freaky for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i><strong>Freaky Tales (2024)<\/strong> <\/i><\/b>rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z082225zview_freakytales2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freaky Tales (2024) Director: \u00a0Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Screenplay: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Stars: Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Too $hort,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39693,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39691\/revisions\/39693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}