GOSSIP & RUMORS: Frank Stallone claims LA is scary: ‘Batten down the windows’

Frank Stallone is not a fan of the City of Angels.

The 74-year-old actor, who hails from NYC, said Los Angeles, Calif., was once “sunny” with little crime — however it has since become a “scary” and “filthy” place.

Stallone, who is the younger brother of “Rocky” star Sylvester Stallone, said the Golden State looked very different when he set up camp there in 1979.

“I came to California in ‘79 and it was totally — it was California Dreamin’, and I wasn’t even in the best time,” Stallone told Fox News.

“No, it was a lot better earlier…but it was real California sunny, you know? Cool. Not much crime.”

After recently driving through downtown Los Angeles, Stallone said what he saw was “filth.”

“The graffiti and the homelessness is almost like that movie ‘Escape from New York,’” he said, referencing the 1981 film starring Kurt Russell.

“I mean, it’s that scary. I mean, I batten down the window, locks…You’re talking trash piled four feet high. Just filth,” Stallone went on.

“You’ve just got to move them out,” he said of the increasing volume of people sleeping rough. “No more of these Winnebagos parked for months on the curb. You know, we got to move. No more pitching tents on sidewalks where people can’t walk.”

“No more pitching tents in front of people’s houses. I mean, when I was going down to the gym, it was so compacted with homeless people. The stench — also that that type of unsanitariness breeds you know… All kinds of bad stuff… There’s a lot of human excrement. It’s just terrible,” he added.

Stallone blamed California’s chaotic state on Gavin Newsom’s “really bad” leadership.

“I think this guy is so transparent. He’s so phony. He’s a terrible speaker. The hands and the hair and everything. He’s just set up to be made fun of, you know what I mean? And he’s a bad governor,” he said of the California gov and potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender.

“I mean, this is such a beautiful state. Beautiful. We got the mountains, we got snow, we got the ocean. We’ve got everything. It’s just run wrong…. I mean, the crime. It’s just ridiculous.”

“You know, $900 you can steal and nothing happens. But that, to me, is I’m lost on that one. You know, when I was a kid, you stole a candy bar, you get a kick in the butt,” Stallone added.