There was such an air of fun, promise, gross-out, toilet humor and overt horniness in 80’s horror that’s been missing from the modern slate. Comin’ in hot to fill that hole is writer/director Steve Kostanski’s Frankie Freako. Kostanski, most recently known for pulling ancient alien overlord Psycho Goreman to small-town suburbia, burst onto the horror feature scene with 2011’s Divide starring Rosanna Arquette, Milo Ventimiglia and Courtney B. Vance.

But back to the lame-o, square subject of our film, late 80s yuppie, Connor (Connor Sweeney), who’s heckin’ stressed at work due to his weirdo boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) and at home, mostly because to his gorgeous wife Kristy (Kristy Wordsworth) always wants to have sex when all Connor wants to do is hold hand(s).

Enter a smooth-saxed commercial featuring the suave Frankie Freako, who’s voiceover artist coaxes you into joining his party-filled world if you wanna escape your hum-drum life. Connor fights the feeling to call for days until his wife heads off for a weekend work meeting. Alone at home and self-satisfied with a water and a cheese pizza, at the ghastly late hour of 8:30 pm, Connor can’t take it anymore, and he caves in to Frankie Freako’s hotline begging to party.

What can only be called “What the hell did we get up to last night?”, Connor awakens to a ransacked home and three little aliens, Boink (tech-whiz), Dottie (sultry Cowgirl vigilante) and of course, the man of the hour, Frankie Freako (good time extraordinaire). But life doesn’t stop when the party does and Connor must find a way to work, live, love and get life back to normal before his wife comes home. Not only do Frankie and friends make that unbearable and impossible, they open up a new can of worms when it’s revelaed that someTHING is chasing them, and now Connor must play reluctant hero to save the day and hopefully break his “square” persona for good.

A mix of misfits of old like Ghoulies, Critters and Gremlins and sensibilities of House as one man against the world, Frankie Freako was a hell of a fun standout and a wonderful homage to the 80s camp we’ve missed for so long!