You can’t watch the trailer for Pedro Pascal’s new movie Freaky Tales and not think of the 1990s. Mainly that’s because the film is set right on the cusp of the decade, 1987, but also the idea of a violent, weird, sprawling single California city almost-anthology brings to mind one of the best films of the decade: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction.

The flashback trailer opens with Pascal’s character Clint narrating the 1987-set Oakland story as clips of Normani portraying a musician flash by. “The underdog thinks he can do the impossible: to feed the bully, sell enough mixtapes to get out of the hood,” says Clint. “I can say with certainty, this underdog has seen his last day.”