The Greasy Strangler (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Jim Hosking (The "G" segment of The ABCs of Death 2)
	Actors: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black Comedy, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 06.07.2016, Cinema Arcades NIFFF2016
Synopsis: Big Brayden (Elobar) lives and works with his father Big Ronnie (St. Michaels). He feeds him the greasiest food available so that at night he can become the Greasy Strangler. Things change when Big Brayden falls in love with Janet (De Razzo).
Review: The word that comes to mind to describe this movie is: Gross! All the characters are made pretty disgusting, sometimes dressed in oversized disco suits but more often in their underwear when anything at all. You don't want to watch this movie while of just after eating. It is a very colorful Z movie and the trailer made me fear the worst, so I sat near an aisle to be able to escape in case I got too bored. I have seen this happen many times with this kind of movies like Hobo with a shotgun or Zombie hunter: you can normally tell that you have seen in the trailer all the best moments. But I was positively surprised as The Greasy Strangler keeps on being... I wouldn't say good but at least constant in quality. Note that it was produced by the Elijah "Frodo" Wood's company, which also gave us Maniac and Open Window for example. Not too bad choices. Also note some apparitions by Abdoulaye NGom that you may remember from the TV-series My Name is Earl with Jason Lee. The repetition of the same jokes keeps entertaining for a while. For how long do you think two persons can call each other "Bullshit artist" or its derivatives on a movie? Well guess again. It is also funny how after each crime the Greasy Strangler washes himself (and his huge sexual appendage) in a car-wash. And when you get tired of those greasy jokes then the story gets weirder and weirder, the father stealing the girlfriend of his sons and this kind of absurdities. A totally absurd and gross movie not to put in the hands of the faint-hearted, and for the other better watched under influence and surrounded by friends in the same state, or at the midnight screening of a festival like the NIFFF or BIFFF where people do not hesitate to shout at the screen.
Rating: 5 /10