The ’80s brought out movies that somehow never get old. Those sci-fi adventures that felt ahead of their time. Teen comedies ...

The 1980s included great years for genre movies, from fantasy and sci-fi to action flicks and horror films. In the era of excess, Hollywood began to push boundaries in all these fan-favorite genres.

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, Calif., of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors, Ryan Fleck, did — to ...