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- **Posted:** 2025-04-08T04:33:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Golden Gate Xpress (@GGXnews) — https://gondola.cc/GGXnews

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Making a movie encapsulating a place in time close to people’s hearts is already hard. Now make it Oakland. With staunch locals with a hard nose for posers and outsiders, I was a little worried going into the sold-out Grand Lake Theater, wondering if “Freaky Tales” would end with a Rocky Horror-style reaction. Yet, instead of popcorn throwing and shouts of offense, there were hoots, hollers and clapping to the series of East Bay references and plot points. Cheering from the theatre could be heard all the way from Skyline neighborhood all the way to Jack London Square.

The film follows four different stories involving a weird green substance, woven together with touches of all kinds of genres from serious to melodramatic: thriller, comedy, mystery and action. This film works as both a love letter to the 510 as well as a love letter to cinema. 

The first chapter is about two teenage punks (Jack Champion and Ji-young Yoo) who go to the popular volunteer-run punk club 924 Gilman that gets constantly bombarded by Nazis yelling racist and homophobic slurs. The next follows rap duo Danger Zone (Dominique Thorne and Normani) who are asked to come to a Too Short (Symba) concert by his manager to do a rap battle with him. The third chapter stars Pedro Pascal as a nearly retired loan shark enforcer who just wants his wife to be safe and out of the game. The last story was the most bombastic of all, involving Golden State Warrior player Sleepy Floyd going on a crazy kung-fu, Mortal Kombat-style bloody killing spree, which is just bonafide fun. 

🔗 Read more at link in bio. 

✍️: Julian Mullan (@brainasanantfarm)
📸: Lionsgate Films

#sfsu #sfstate #pedropascal #oakland #freakytales

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