As fun and freaky as “Freaky Tales” gets in fits and starts, it never really clicks together as a resonant or satisfying whole.

... An anthology movie about Eighties California that is inert, self-indulgent and punishingly dull.

With its VHS bargain-bin aesthetic, this is scuzzily enjoyable stuff.

The nutritious thrust of Freaky Tales is how — amidst the camp, combat, Nazi-stomping, and supernatural twinge — it frontloads an ode to personal power while insisting on that power’s presence within all of us.