Oakland, California was pretty freaky in the year 1987, and now moviegoers can experience that for themselves with Freaky Tales, the new action comedy coming to theaters this weekend. Written and ...

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, Calif. of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors, Ryan Fleck, did — to ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Freaky Tales draws from four true events that took place in Oakland, California in 1987, with each story tied to the city's reported panic over a mysterious green light and a wave of violence. The ...