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- 2024
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 25 m
- 2024
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 25 m
Summary Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?
Directed By: Steven Kostanski
Written By: Steven Kostanski
- 2024
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 25 m
- 2024
- Shout! Studios
- 1 h 25 m
Frankie Freako
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Summary Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?
Directed By: Steven Kostanski
Written By: Steven Kostanski
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
4 Reviews
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Frankie Freako is designed to melt your brain. The only question is whether you might welcome such cerebral liquefaction or not.
Built from the same little monster framework as stuff like the Gremlins and Critters series, Frankie Freako is an unapologetically weird, esoteric ride through a very particular kind of ’80s movie, complete with what feels like an absolute suspension of the rules of reality. That makes it, at minimum, refreshing, and at its best, wildly entertaining.
For better or worse, Kostanski's throwback creature feature wants older horror fans to feel like their childish selves again — as long as their childhoods were filled with Charles Band and Pee-Wee Herman.
It’s a self-consciously juvenile pizza party of a movie that's lots of fun if you don’t take it too seriously.
Frankie Freako isn’t the film you’re going to rave about to friends. It will, however, be an excellent subject for conversation about how much films got away with in 1986. If you can watch this film through that lens, it’s definitely a freaky film you can appreciate.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
5.0
60% Positive
3 Ratings
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0% Mixed
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40% Negative
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2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 User Ratings
5.0
60% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
40% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Started off promising for a movie in 2024, wooden characters and poor acting but that's standard in 2024. Also, totally unrealistic 'matching'... the girl is like an 8 out 10 and the dude looks like a bisexual 3/10 liberal male. In real life you never see a disparity that bad, unless it's a millionaire sugar daddy.
Then came the stupid 'haha violence means funny' humor. And we realized it was going to be another 80 minutes of it. Turned it off.
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Production Company
Hangar 18 Media
Release Date Oct 4, 2024
Duration 1 h 25 m
Tagline It's time to get Freako!
Website
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