Do you like creepy puppets and weird little guys? Well, you're about to meet your new favorite in Frankie Freako, the upcoming monster-driven horror comedy director Steven Kostanski (PG: Psycho Goreman, The Void) that gets a brand new trailer and release date today courtesy of Shout! Studios.
Frankie Freako hits theaters on October 4, and stars Conor Sweeney, Adam Brooks and Kristy Woodsworth. The film is described as a raucous 80s callback led by the titular maniacal rock n’ roll goblin – so you better believe we're totally sold already.
A full plot synopsis reads as follows:
Workaholic yuppie Conor Sweeney (star of “The Editor”, “Father’s Day”) has a dilemma: no one in his life respects him! Not his boss, not his coworkers, not even his wife Kristina, who thinks he’s an uptight “square”! Conor sees no way out of this existential rut until one night channel-surfing he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: FRANKIE FREAKO. Conor is entranced by Frankie’s promises of wild and freaky adventures, just a phone call away – could this be the recipe to spice up his flavorless life?
Home alone for the weekend, Conor works up the courage to dial the number for the Frankie Freako hotline. As soon as the call connects, it unleashes CHAOS into his white-collar world, releasing Frankie and his troublemaker friends from their dimensional prison. It’s a race against time as Conor must defeat the rambunctious ruffians and clean up their trail of destruction before Kristina returns from her trip, all while going on an unexpected journey of self-discovery. It’s a wacky FX-driven horror-comedy in the style of “Gremlins 2” and “Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies go to College”.
In a recent interview with Eye For Film, Kostanski expressed a sentiment we at FANGORIA are very, very much in agreement with: more weird little freak guys in horror, please:
“I wanted to make a little monster movie. I've been arguing with the other guys that there's room in the genre world for something like this. They were convinced that nobody wants to watch little monsters being shitheads, but based on the reaction last night, I think people are pretty cool with this.
Check out Frankie Freako‘s new trailer and poster below, and catch him in theaters on October 4.
