Personality goes a long way, and “Freaky Tales” has a lot of it, particularly its well-executed throwback look.

Anyone who longs for the ‘80s will gobble up Anna Boden and East Bay-born Ryan Fleck’s “Freaky Tales,” a berserk quartet of VHS-like tales that celebrates Oakland’s raucous vitality and creative spirit (which is so high the city registers in the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud).

I think Oakland needs this movie right now,” the Berkeley-born Fleck said during an interview with Boden at one of the film’s star locations — the venerable Grand Lake Theatre. “The city’s gone through some tough times.