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“Freaky Tales”, the new live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, stars Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, streaming August 8, 2025 on HBO Max:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

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Pedro Pascal is emerging as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, in addition to being one of the most prolific actors alive. Pascal is having an incredible 2025, which started with him reprising his role as the surrogate father figure Joel Miller in HBO's The Last of Us season 2, earning a second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

This summer, he's starred in two A24 movies – Celine Song's romantic comedy Materialists and Ari Aster's neo-Western Eddington, and will also make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, releasing in theaters on July 25. However, Pascal has another movie that was released in theaters this year, but flew under the radar, and is now making its way onto streaming.

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Freaky Tales has landed a streaming release date.

“Freaky Tales”, the new live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, stars Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, now available to rent/own on digital platforms, followed by a 4K/Blu-ray release June 3, 2025:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Freaky Tales” is a live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, available to rent/own on digital platforms April 25, 2025, followed by a 4K/Blu-ray release June 3, 2025:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Freaky Tales” is a live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, opening April 4, 2025 in theaters:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

Click the images to enlarge…...

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Freaky Tales is an ode to 1987 Oakland rife with references to (and cameos by) various music and sports icons of the city’s underdog era. The film illustrates the eclecticism of Oakland via an anthology of four stories connected by little more than characters from each segment briefly occupying the same spaces as the narrative baton is handed off between teen punks, wannabe rappers, a thumb-breaking debt collector trying to go straight, and Golden State Warriors player Sleepy Floyd (Jay Ellis).

Nakedly wearing its cinematic influences on its sleeve, Freaky Tales suggests Pulp Fiction by way of Repo Man. In the first segment, “Strength in Numbers,” a trio of teenage punksters, high off of seeing The Lost Boys at the Grand Lake Theatre, go to the iconic all-ages music venue Gilman Street, where they catch a set from the punk band Operation Ivy. Throughout,...

“Freaky Tales” is a live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, starring Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, opening April 4, 2025 in theaters:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

Click the images to enlarge…...

“Freaky Tales” is a bloody, live-action anthology feature, written and directed by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, starring Pedro Pascal. Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo, Angus Cloud, Keir Gilchrist, Marteen, Michael X. Sommers, Yong Kim, Michelle Farrah Huang and Too $hort, opening April 4, 2025 in theaters:

‘…set in 1987 Oakland, California, the film is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters…

“…including an ‘NBA’ star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks and a debt collector…

“…on a collision course in a fever dream…

“…of showdowns and battles.”

Click the images to enlarge…...

This article contains spoilers for "Halloween Ends."

Like all slasher films, David Gordon Green's "Halloween" trilogy will be heavily debated between generations of horror fans until the sun burns out, with people still screaming out "Team Corey!" or "It sucked!" with their last, gasping breaths. Regardless of how anyone personally feels about the trilogy, there's one thing we can all agree on — there are some pretty damn gnarly kills on display. "Halloween Ends" is home to some particularly shocking kill sequences, with the massacre at the salvage yard easily one of the best. During the scene, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) gets revenge on a gang of bullies who torment him, including Terry Tramer (Michael Barbieri), Stacy (Destiny Mone), Margo (Joey Harris), and Billy (Marteen). Terry takes a blowtorch to the face, Stacy gets her head smashed by a wrench, Billy gets a drumstick stabbed through his head, and Margo...

"Halloween Ends" spoilers below. 

Reactions are starting to trickle in for "Halloween Ends," the trilogy capper to one of the most successful resets in horror history. So far, it appears that fans and critics are markedly mixed about the peculiar direction that the third entry takes. To be sure, it's a bold move by David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and the rest of the writing team and, wherever the final analysis lands, they all took a big swing with the storyline they chose to run with. On the surface, "Halloween Ends" features all the elements you need for an effective "Halloween" movie: Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode, it's set during Halloween, and there's a gleaming, bloody butcher knife in almost every shot. 

The large, looming omission in the culmination of the Strode family story is the franchise's main catalyst -- the actual boogeyman -- who is maddeningly...

We’re just days away from the release of Halloween Ends on Peacock and in theaters, with the final film in David Gordon Green‘s sequel trilogy slashing our way on October 14.

While you wait, we’re serving up the full official image gallery for Halloween Ends today, which is loaded with photos you’ve probably already seen along with some new ones.

The big selling point for Halloween Ends is that it’s set to deliver the Final battle between Jamie Lee Curtis‘s Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with the promise that one of them probably won’t be surviving. Place your bets. And check out the full image gallery below.

Here’s the official plot synopsis for Halloween Ends: “Four years after the events of last year’s Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael...