JÄnis Locis
Definitely a very weird movie, most people will absolutely hate it and turn it off in the first couple of minutes. Is it great? Not really, but it is something very bizarre and has some shock value to it.Nowadays it is extremely hard to surprise the audience with something incredibly grose, bizarre and just flat out obscene. This movie achieves that perfectly, it is insanely weird and paired with the funky over the top weird music this movie has an incredibly awkward and disturbing vibe. I will give this film props for creating a feeling of this sort for me as it is usually impossible to surprise me anymore.Do not watch this if you expect any clever plot twists or anything of that sort. This film does not have any of that, in fact it has no premise at all and next to no plot. Watch this if you want to something unseen, unique and totally screwed up. The movie showcases the most bizarrely awkward father - son relationship you will ever see in your life, guaranteed.
kosmasp
This movie is actually really bad. Like I should be rating it a 1 or 2 out of 10. The acting is despicable and annoying if you want to be nice. But it's all part of a master plan. Well maybe not master plan, but at least a plan. A plan that is pretty greasy. Almost as greasy as the movie and the Strangler himself.It's not a big mystery who the title character is, you'll find out soon enough. So it's not about mystery, it's not about quality either. It's about being as crazy and ridiculous as possible. There is a faux tourist service, there is a father and son duo who seem to have the lowest IQ one can imagine. Then you meet other people and kind of realize there is not much thinking going on. There also seems not be a real investigation into the murders. But why should there be? This is gross and insulting. Also very unique and enjoyable in the right state of mind ...
videorama-759-859391
I can understand the avid attraction or more correctly the morbid fascination with this "have to see" Indie. It's one hell of individual one. Something this original, you'll not see for many years. It's, if this makes sense, repulsively addictive, and we the viewer, take delight, basking in it's repulsiveness, and believe there are some, 'turn away' scenes in this vein. There are some darn funny moments, but I did expect a much funnier film, one that provokes constant laughter, if a punchier script as well. But it's a film, I know will have me re watching again, in the days to follow.. This morbid tale is of the relationship between a father, who runs faux tours of locations, where rock stars, actors, use to hang out, and his layabout, obese, wannabe comic artist/writer son, where from the first reel, nothing is left uncovered, well almost, and the movie holds nothing back. A quite plump, black woman on the tour, falls for the son, while Daddy's out getting basted, and committed strangulations, and washing off the crime at the local car wash, with the car brushes, the business run by of course, a blind black (of course) guy. The love interest, presents a threat to killer Daddy who doesn't wanna be alone, so obviously, you know where this film's story heading. The violence is stupidly shocking, a few eye popping scenes, a totally punched in head, and some other violence near the twisted ending of our nice happy tale. I think our three leads, did a great job, the father the best, while the black girl was pretty good. But he should lay off that grease and fat, as he will no doubt, end like his victims in the near future. What I love about The Greasy Strangler, where honestly, I can't give it more than a five, is that there's a style in it's repulsiveness, while being an addictive view, like crack to a movie viewer, who's seen it's preview. It's gotta be seen, at least once, where the easily shocked, are probably better off, hiring The Boston Strangler.
jiribloudin
One of the worst films ever. In one word: Stupid. In two words: Stupid and Tedious. In three words: Stupid, tedious, and pointless. This anally obsessed, infantile film tries ever so hard to be shocking, gross and outrageous and milk John Waters territory, but Waters' films such as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living were original for their time, and had charm and humour, and this has neither - anything but. The forced stilted and stylised dialogue and delivery merely irritates, as do the twisted, idiotic characters. A truly stupid, worthless piece of crap with no redeeming value whatsoever.
