Steven Kostanski’s latest horror outing is designed to melt your brain and the only question is whether or not you welcome such cerebral liquefaction
Conor , played by Conor Sweeney, appears in a scene in Frankie Freako. Steven Kostanski 's latest genre trash horror is set at some point in the 80s. Few details are available to set a precise time, but every character uses a landline.– a dumpster-dive-funded sci-fi action-comedy shot mostly in his garage – Kostanski has ingeniously commodified a super-niche stream of 80s-junk fetishism.
Set some time and somewhere in the 80s – no details are ever given, but every character uses a landline – Kostanski’s film follows the everyday life of bland, sexless yuppie Conor , who desperately needs to spice up his suburban life. After his preposterously attractive wife Kristina leaves town one weekend for a work trip, Conor succumbs to temptation and dials a skeezy 1-900 party hotline run by a cool little creature named Frankie Freako .
Quickly, Conor’s life is turned upside-down by Frankie and his fellow freaks, who turn out to be hard-partying refugees from an alien planet run by a gross little gangster named Munch (which can only be interpreted as a reference to the mostly forgotten 1987and a mid-film interdimensional trip via mine cart that recalls the Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country.
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