Freaky Tales (2025)

'Freaky Tales,' created by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, blends fact and fantasy and is set in 1980s Oakland.

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, 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 appreciate it, although having done so surely would give you all those nostalgic feelings Fleck is hoping to conjure. Shooting in Oakland in late 2022 and early ’23, the production clearly went to great lengths to re-create aspects of the city, a world away, if only 12 actual miles and some water, from its Bay Area neighbor, San Francisco. Plus, two Oakland legends, [...]

Freaky Tales, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's first movie since Captain Marvel, revives the spirit of their indie work.

Recreating the 1990s setting for Captain Marvel was a more challenging task for directors Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden than recreating the 1980s for their new film Freaky Tales. During an interview with ComicBook to promote the upcoming action comedy (due in theaters April 4th), the filmmakers were asked about which period proved to be [...]The post Why Recreating Captain Marvel’s ’90s Was Harder Than Freaky Tales’ ’80s for the Directors appeared first on ComicBook.com.