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The Greasy Strangler
Middle-aged schlub Brayden runs a disco walking tour along with his cantankerous father, Big Ronnie. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, Brayden somehow attracts her romantic interest, making Ronnie jealously competitive for her attentions.
14 December 1973
20 July 1949
13 May 1987, DuBois, Pennsylvania, USA
14 December 1973
27 December 1980, Laredo, Texas, USA
7 August 1952
31 January 1944, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
October 26, 2016
Most of the humor derives from the aggressively depraved presentation, which is hard to sustain for 90 minutes. But as trashy, you-gotta-see-this provocations go, well, you gotta see it.October 21, 2016
Bonkers, and destined to be an instant cult item, which raises the question of whether you can design a movie to be cult.October 20, 2016
It's vile, it's intrusive, and it's annoying, but it's strikingly, creatively, and impressively so. And, to boot, really freakin' weird.January 01, 2017
The Greasy Strangler needs to be seen on the smallest screen possible, with the sound off.October 06, 2016
An ugly and frequently hilarious descent into all things repellent, the debut feature from director Jim Hosking plants itself firmly in a world of filth and shock.January 16, 2017
Like the faceless strip malls and broken vending machines of its setting, The Greasy Strangler is the manifestation of Americana's inescapable shallowness, rendered down and smeared across the screen.October 06, 2016
There are people out there who find gross-out internet videos funny, and these people will wholeheartedly embrace Jim Hosking's feature directorial debut.October 13, 2016
The best thing about "The Greasy Strangler": that title. The worst thing about "The Greasy Strangler": everything that follows that title.November 01, 2016
...a unique film by an emergent auteur that truly wallows in the abject and is all the better for it.October 07, 2016
Is any of this funny? Sometimes, though not often. Is that intentional? Well, that's debatable. Is it worth seeing? Yes, but only if you enjoy being grossed out.October 04, 2016
Hosking knows how to grab our attention, but not hold it in a meaningful way.October 27, 2016
Its willful determination to be outré proves its undoing.