Director: Steven Kostanski
A bored office worker dials the wrong hotline and gets a lot more than he bargained for in Frankie Freako, Steven Kostanski's 2024 horror-comedy from Canada.
What is Frankie Freako about?
Conor has settled into a life that runs on autopilot — same desk, same routine, same nagging sense that something's missing. Late one night he flips past a garish infomercial for a party hotline fronted by a small, loud, dancing goblin calling himself Frankie Freako, and on a whim he calls the number just to see what happens. What happens is that Frankie shows up in the flesh, dragging chaos, mischief, and a couple of equally strange companions straight into Conor's apartment and his carefully ordered life. The film leans hard into practical creature effects and gleeful bad taste, treating Frankie's arrival less as a horror invasion and more as an overdue wake-up call, one delivered in the loudest, slimiest, most ridiculous way possible.
Cast & crew
Conor Sweeney stars as Conor, with Kristy Wordsworth, Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Meredith Sweeney, Rich Evans, Rob Schrab, and Patrick Baxter filling out the cast around him.
Context & significance
Frankie Freako runs 85 minutes and holds a 5.6 rating on IMDb, sitting squarely in the practical-effects horror-comedy tradition that director Steven Kostanski has built his career on. It's a throwback in tone and craft, favoring rubber suits and puppetry over digital effects, aimed at viewers who want their scares served with a wink rather than played straight. The pacing stays brisk throughout its short runtime, packing in costume gags, oddball supporting creatures, and a steady escalation of household destruction rather than dragging out its premise, which keeps the film feeling more like a fast, disposable party than a drawn-out ordeal.
Where & how to watch
Frankie Freako streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, letting Farsi-speaking viewers enjoy its chaos without needing to read along. Browsing this page needs no account; watching the film itself just takes a free K-Time login, inside a viewing experience designed with the Persian-speaking diaspora in mind.