‘Frankie Freako’ Is Ready to Party: Inside the Surreal Midnight Movie That Blends Cringe Comedy With ‘Little Puppets Running Around Torturing People’
variety.comWilliam Earl Horror writer and director Steven Kostanski, who helmed indie hits like 2016’s “The Void” and 2020’s “Psycho Goreman,” knows his interests don’t always align with what’s trendy for genre fans. “For years, I’ve been trying to push my fellow filmmaker friends into trying to make some kind of little creature movie,” he says. “It would be great to have little puppets running around torturing people.
Who doesn’t want to watch that? Everybody said, ‘Oh, there’s no market for that.’ Everybody talks in terms of, ‘What is the popular thing in horror right now?
Is it zombies?’ Nobody ever says, ‘It’s little trouble-making gremlin creatures.'” Feedback be damned, Kostanski started developing a film in the spirit of genre classics like “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” and “Ghoulies.” The result is “Frankie Freako,” opening Oct.
4 in theaters via Shout! Studios. In the movie, Conor (Conor Sweeney) is an uptight businessman who isn’t interesting enough to keep his wife (Kristy Wordsworth) and boss (Adam Brooks) happy.
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