The Greasy Strangler (2016) Online

Weirdest movie i have ever seen. Cannot be recommended but i cannot not recommend it either. I don't condemn anybody who gives it a rating of 1 out of 10 but i can see how it could get a 10 out of 10 too. From the bat**it crazy soundtrack to the gratuitous full on male nudity that peppers the entire movie you are in for an experience if nothing else. Do not go into this without being warned, you will hate it and love it (delete as applicable) It's a horror movie with some weird gross out scenes, a love story with some weird gross out sex scenes and a comedy movie with some weird gross out scenes. It's funny in a kind of "never seen that before" way - you will tell your buddies about it. Watch it because you'll be glad you had, even if you hate it, if that makes sense.

What's with all the low-ball ratings/reviews? Come on people, can you honestly say you were expecting something else when you sat down to watch this movie? The name alone is enough to either pull you in or send you running for the door - so, if you didn't go running, then you obviously didn't hate it.

I'll be honest, I didn't sit down to watch this movie expecting to be blown away, but I was intrigued enough to see it. Most movies that go straight to "on-demand" status rarely are worth my time and money. A mere 5 minutes in though I knew I was seeing something special (I watched it 3 times in 48 hours). This movie isn't for everyone, and frankly you could spend the rest of your life searching for someone capable of appreciating it for what it is. It's a throwback to the thinly-plotted, cheap thrills horror-comedy movies of the 80's. Anyone who's seen the Toxic Avenger will surely fall in love all over again. The acting isn't Oscar-worthy by far, but that's the point. It's supposed to be cheesy, and that's what draws you in. It's probably gonna shock you, it may offend you, but it's definitely gonna put a smile on your face one way or another.

My only complaint is that they supposedly cut 45 minutes of the film for the final version. I'd love to see it released someday with the extra footage. Also, the ending seemed somewhat rushed, they could've left it open to a sequel, but that may be due to their cutting the extra scenes.

This is one of those movies that if I sat down and explained the whole thing from start to finish you would either say "Eww that sounds terrible" or "I need to see that now because I can't believe a movie like that exists." Everything about "Greasy Strangler" is just so strange and stupid, but at the same time it's hard to look away and throughout the movie I was pretty interested in seeing what would happen next. It's kind of like if Troma and the guys behind "Napoleon Dynamite" teamed up and made a movie.

There is tons of graphic nudity, over the top violence, and buckets upon buckets of grease. By the time the credits rolled I felt like I needed to take a shower, the movie has such a dirty/uncomfortable tone to it, but honestly that didn't prevent me from being entertained and intrigued by it. It's a film that needs to be seen to be believed. The gore/crudeness isn't exactly on the same level as a troma film or some hardcore underground horror films, but I still found myself slightly shocked at some of the stuff that they brought to the table.

Greasy Strangler is so odd and out there that it's almost like an anti movie. It doesn't follow any guidelines or strive to be like any other movie, it just simply does whatever it wants which makes it really hard to know what to expect next. The dialogue, crude humor, and strange characters will likely turn a lot of people away, but those willing to look past the gross exterior of the movie may find themselves laughing a lot.

I liked "The Greasy Strangler", it is completely stupid but it is also original and oddly interesting. Definitely not for everybody, but for those who know what to expect and aren't turned off by the idea of over the top disgusting humor this could be a movie experience that you won't forget.

But I am so, so glad it does exist. It's a very oddball, just plain weird story that can't be explained without spoiling the plot, of which there is little. If you dare to see this film, expect a very awkward experience with lots of full frontal male and female nudity (the male are prosthetics and the woman has an enormous bush) and the most bizarre sense of humor since Napoleon Dynamite and They Came Together. You probably won't like this movie, unless you're willing to just suffer through a barrage of awkward pauses, repeated lines, and just stupid sex scenes that should have you in stitches. If you think this is really a horror, you're not expecting the right thing at all.

My quick rating - 5,4/10. This is either a love it or hate it movie. Even though I lean towards the enjoyed it part, I can't just say it was good. The "so dumb it is funny" is plastered throughout this flick. Completely off the wall sex scenes, cartoon like kills and more inside jokes than can possibly be kept up with. But don't worry, those jokes will get repeated and drawn out way too long so you'll get them anyway. This coupled with a truly annoying soundtrack that will just get stuck in your head. The makers of this movie have to idolize Troma films (I know I do) since this just smells like it came from Lloyd Kaufman himself. If you want to see plenty of full frontal nudity, male included (huge prosthetic penises btw) then this is your movie. I could reveal more but let me just say, if a fan of movies, this is one of those you should see just because you have to. You may not like it but like I am right now, you will still be shaking your head wondering just what in the hell you just watched.

There was a time when John Waters revelled in making the most vile, disgusting, and thoroughly unpleasant films ever put to celluloid. While they could never be mistaken for high art, these films had a charm and sincerity which would elevate them above other gross out movies and grant them an instant and lasting cult appeal.

This noxious maelstrom is something a throwback to those films, a toilet where all semblance of good taste is flushed away in a swirl of feces and grease...lots of grease. Add in some Troma-esque special effects, and you get something that balances a precarious line between making you puke your guts out, and split your sides with laughter.

It may not be as provocative or inflammatory as Pink Flamingos, but its goals are also not so lofty. Where John Waters once sought to eradicate the boundaries of quality and good taste, Jim Hosking simply wishes to disgust and entertain. A simpler purpose and one where he succeeds magnificently. (Plus, in the realm of shock cinema, it's tough to top a drag queen who literally eats sh*t.)

So is this movie any good? I guess it depends on the viewer, their individual tastes, and their interpretation of what defines a "good" film. It is vulgar, vile, and disgusting. Both The acting and dialogue are extremely stilted and awkward. The pacing is erratic and you'll probably feel like taking a shower when its over. However, since this is all intentional, it's very difficult to consider it anything but a success.

In short, this is the movie that Trash Humpers wishes it could be.

There is no excuse for this movie to exist. None.

I will likely have PTSD every time I go to the car wash now, because some things just can't be unseen.

Sometimes the phrase "Hootie Tootie Disco Cutie" pops in my brain just to torment me.

I can't even cook bacon anymore because the sight of grease induces flashbacks.

I saw this at the Phoenix Film Festival. When the screening was over, I went home and attempted to bleach my brain. The following morning, at the next horror movie, we all discussed the trauma inflicted by this film. None of us are likely to recover. We considered a support group, but were frankly afraid to continue reliving the details. I wish I could forget.

Oh, how I wish I could forget.

This movie has zero redeeming qualities, not just as a horror film, but a film in general. I didn't laugh, I didn't get scared. I mostly just wanted to throw up.

Do not, under any circumstances, see this film. You've been warned.

I tried describing this film to a friend. It's labeled a horror comedy, but I didn't find it scary or funny. The latter is not meant to be an insult, because there's a definite unique style that would work for some people.

The most apt analogy I can make is that it's a live action Beavis and Butthead world done by the cast of Shameless.

Characters that would be considered as a weird outlier in any other work seems to be par for the course here. Everything is weird, awkward, and unsettling but not in a creepy way.

I rate it a 6 because after I was done watching all I could really say was "Yup. I watched that." but it's very easily either the best film you'll ever see, or one of the worst, depending on what you want from it.

Eh, this is really nothing original. If you grew up in the seventies and eighties you've already seen this with the work of John Waters and Troma, among countless other forced attempts at camp by horror movies such as Dead Alive or Street Trash. I knew what I was getting into from the start because I saw the trailer which seemed pretty quirky and funny. But the trailer was only a minute or two long. Dragging this one joke out for ninety minutes proved to be a really excruciating experience. I honestly can't say I laughed once during the entire thing, but I do admit that it made me nauseous. The Napoleon Dynamite type of nerdy characters and dialogue might have worked in a film set in reality, but in this nonsense world it just made the film all the more irritating, along with a musical score involving nothing but someone banging on an organ. This is the stuff of a twenty minute short, not a full length feature.

45min? Where's the rest of my f***g movie? Bullshit artist.

I truly believe this is an instant genuine cult master piece,I enjoyed the movie for its weirdness, it's entertaining because it's so random you never know what's coming next, it's a genre by it self. Raw acting,over the top scenes,indescribable dialogues... Apart from the script the way the characters interact and their dialogues are priceless I've never seen anything like this, a brilliant master piece. I would recommend this movie to a small group of friends a SMALL group of friends, friends who would appreciate "rubber", "toxic avenger" or even this year's also favorite "suiss army man" It's a beautiful mess.the only part of the movie that I dint understand the meaning/point (the rest was perfectly logical to me) was the assassination of the blind car wash owner. Now LET'S GO DISCO DANCING.

It dawned on me, about ten minutes in, that the script was either written by ten-year-olds or the writer imagined him/herself as a young boy. Painful to watch unless you look at it this way, so maybe there is a meaning behind it - to juxtapose the adults speaking like adolescents.

Everything reflects a moronic, crass effort, with the odd chuckle here and there. Like Napoleon Dynamite-level acting, with very little of the charm.

Perhaps it will end up as a cult favorite, loved by the bong-hitting college students and artsy types who find it cool to like garbage.

No doubt when the original idea for this film was pitched at financial backers it seemed like a quirky and unusual change - something a bit oddball and fun for audiences to watch.

But all this has turned out to be is some narcissistic self-indulgent tripe which will appeal to luvvies and 'those' types who think they know about art, and are quite happy to waste public money which could be better spent.

Perhaps the fact that it didn't do well in cinemas and has made it's way to the bargain basement of many online streaming services tells us all we need to know.

A childish and pathetic attempt at oddball humour.

I actually gave this movie a lot of thought, because it's so incredibly bad right from the opening scene that you know no film maker could possibly make a film so bad, unless they did it deliberately. So, out of ideas, and out of inspiration, someone came up with a cunning plan: they'd make a movie so incredibly awful that it would eventually become a cult and would actually make money. I am fairly sure that there are some people out there who like cult films simply because they want to be part of something that isn't mainstream, and thereby look different and daring. They never care that the movie is abominable, just that they will find a like-minded group of people and finally achieve a sense of belonging that they've been waiting for. In that sense if this movie actually brings meaning to peoples' lives by extending their social network to others like them, then that's good. To the other 99.9% of the population seriously...don't even embarrass yourself by watching it.

You know...sometimes I need MY head examined. I do not know what possessed me to try this POS, but let's just say it amounts to $6.99 I'll never get back, 93 minutes of time I'll never get back, and is one of the worst movie ever made.

"Greasy Strangler" is awful. Actually, it goes beyond awful. The story of a father and son (the son obviously a victim of Risperdal) who offer a "disco walking tour" (whatever the hell that is), love, nauseatingly distasteful scenes, and gratuitous shots of "old man wiener," this steaming pile of s**t needs to be burned.

I won't bore you with any more details. Unrated AND unwatchable.

if you're into seeing old man penis and ass then have I got the film for you. I wish I could end this on that note because really that's what's it all about: lots of old man meat and a son that has a bird penis. The son looks like a tranny and acts like a manic depressive (hmmm. I smell a sitcom in the near future)and he is infatuated with a behemoth dressed up in jerry curls and the hairiest mound since 70's porn. Old man Ronnie drowns himself in grease and strangles people that pisses him off (kind of what I want to do to the creators of this fine mess)that's it and have fun watching an old man fart. Ya, that's good stuff Maynard.

I stumbled onto this movie by accident and was expecting something completely different. I was incredibly pleasantly surprised by what a work of art this movie is.

I am a big 80s horror comedy fan, and when I see this kind of over-the-top, cartoony type violence and sex that is sprinkled all over, I'm left with a sense of nostalgia, excitement and joy that stays with me for a long time.

Visually, the entire thing is striking, from the bizarre outfits (Big Ronnie's disco suit!) to the run down scenery to the colours and overall frame composition, everything oozes greasy. The special effects and the violence remind me of Slime City, early Troma films or maybe even Peter Jackson's old movies. The closest I could get to describing the soundtrack is that it sounds like the circus version of what Disasterpeace created for It Follows, building a dissonant but catchy backdrop that aligns perfectly with the rest of the movie.

It is the kind of film I wasn't really expecting to see on a big screen. If anything, maybe on a VHS rip of super 8 footage from way back, just because of how unique it is... I can't even imagine how difficult it must have been to get the production company/actors/sponsors/distributors to agree to use some of the scenes that made it into the final cut of this movie, but somehow they managed to get it done, and movie history is better off for it.

Let's face it, there probably won't be any Oscar nominations for the acting here, but the actors are funny, and apart from a couple of Dude, where's my car-esque scenes where they ramble on and on, the dialogue is great. Imagine David Lynch directing Napoleon Dynamite's horror comedy sequel.

The 18 UK rating is pretty misleading and unfair - there's nothing truly offensive or scary about this movie, but there is a lot of swearing, gross-out moments, and genitalia on screen. If that's not your thing you might want to look elsewhere.

This movie is hilarious, awkward, subversive, beautiful, has a killer soundtrack, and pays homage to a style of filmmaking that to me represents the best in movie entertainment. It has its flaws, but I loved it!

Awful, simply dreadful, completely utterly repulsive. If you're looking for a film that mortifies the very fiber of your being, this is the film for you. Morbidly obese women greased up and ready for 72 year old's to strangle them is what awaits you if you watch this wretched excuse for a grade C film. Not to mention a buttered greased up naked fat man running around with his small flaccid genitalia flailing of which you cannot unsee. No where in this film did any of the concepts tie together to form a plausible even remotely distinguishable resolution.

The acting is simply terrible. The choices made by the actors are conflicting and confusing. The hygiene of the actors is extraordinarily unacceptable and visually disturbing. The story line is confusing and hastily thrown together and what seems to be poor choices concerning free association with any form of a plot line making sense whatsoever. If you enjoy a collage of hastily pieced together unexplainable acts with mortifying choices made from where nightmares have arisen this is the film for you. I think I would've rather washed my dishes than viewed this disaster. Have fun!

Oh my...Jesus! Was this made by lunatics because it actually made me shout out loud what everyone always says, it made me shout "What am I watching!?" So I'd heard something of a buzz about this movie lately and I thought I'd check it out for myself, well it did make me laugh a lot and it certainly had an atmosphere and characters that were genuinely grimy, nauseating, and all-round unpleasant to look at and listen to, the "Big Ronnie" character, who really for better or worse made this a worthwhile picture, was one of the most vile and disgusting slabs of sweet humanity ever committed to celluloid. He loved his food to be composed of more choking grease than food and he treated his poor infantile son like complete garbage, he was such an unrepentant asshole, but damn if he wasn't a sincere asshole! At points it really did have me laughing hard, like when the Indian guy keeps saying "potatoe" in that messed-up way, but then it had way overdone moments like when Big Ronnie and the fat chick keep chanting "Hooty-tootie disco cutie" like demented maniacs forever, which was just a level of idiocy that I find childish and beyond the pale and is really just too much for me to find funny. So anyway, pretty much this movie to me is...bad, and that's good as it's clearly an attempt at a so-bad-it's-good type picture, and it has its moments, but to me it was still totally charmless and just not very good. I'm not sure how much of the randomness was due to original intent and how much was because they were making it up as they went along. It's crude, offensive, shoddily put together, but it is called "The Greasy Strangler", and you don't pick up a movie with a title like that expecting Shakespeare. This is a movie based around shock value and campy stupid fun, and in those areas it succeeded, but that is a bit of a double-edged sword. While this is the kind of movie you can sit down with a group of friends and have a good laugh with, just be careful you don't lose a few of them in the process! Ignoring the intentionally low brow juvenile humour and offensive material, when it comes to the basic balance and pace this movie leaves a hell of a lot to be desired, its overall effect isn't terrible but it is lopsided and fails to live up to its full potential. Too much loony toilet humour, with the last twenty minutes in particular feeling so chaotic and patchy it feels like they're just wasting time to make up the length of the feature! So overall I think it's an unapologetically flawed mess of a movie with nothing really holding it together beyond shock value, titties, and gratuitous shots of old man ass. But you could still do worse believe it or not, and you can tell that the very brave actors were having some fun with it. I enjoyed it enough I guess, it was a decent effort, it felt very true to the spirit of the period of film making long passed that spat out such bizarre and grotesque splatter flicks, and it was nice to see that tried these days. It tries its best to genuinely offend the viewer and it succeeds as a general great big f**k you to conventional barriers of good taste and political correctness.

Apparently the guy who made this movie was heavily influenced by "The Young Ones" and David Lynch. This was neither as funny as the former and much less weird than the latter. Exactly what it was trying to achieve I am unsure, but it did leave me feeling a little queasy, if that was the director's mission. I was left thinking how, as a horror, gross-out movie or comedy, it really failed to be any of those things. It's like it was trying too hard to shock, yet completely forgot to entertain. A Troma rip- off that fails to deliver.

I actually gave this movie a lot of thought, because it's so incredibly bad right from the opening scene that you know no film maker could possibly make a film so bad, unless they did it deliberately. So, out of ideas, and out of inspiration, someone came up with a cunning plan: they'd make a movie so incredibly awful that it would eventually become a cult and would actually make money. I am fairly sure that there are some people out there who like cult films simply because they want to be part of something that isn't mainstream, and thereby look different and daring. They never care that the movie is abominable, just that they will find a like-minded group of belong and finally achieve a sense of belonging that they've been waiting for. In that sense if this movie actually brings meaning to peoples' lives by extending their social network to others like them, then that's good. To the other 99.9% of the population seriously...don't even embarrass yourself by watching it.

A deadbeat father and son duo, Ronnie and Brayden, share a house. By day they run a disco walking tour, and not a very good one. Brayden starts a relationship with Janet, whom he met on the walking tour. However, his father is attracted to her too. All this time, murders are being committed by a foul creature, the Greasy Strangler.

Incredibly stupid, and one of the worst films ever made. The writing is incredibly weak and pointless and the performances are worse than amateurish.

Very poor production values. Even the soundtrack has a cheap, plastic feel to it.

Seems like the idea was just to gross people out.

OK what can i say about that really WEIRD movie ?

Actually it's a quite good movie similar to a Quentin Dupieux Movie with a lot of absurd comedy but very transgressive. The character's are out of time and very funny if you can manage the third degree of sense of humor, maybe 4th (have to be with you).

It's a movie to watch with some friends to laugh a lot, a good midnight movie.

The story is very stupid, it's about a killer who strangle people wearing a lot of grease, that killer is a very old man who have a huge freaky c*ck. OK very hard to explain actually but very simple in fact. 2 characters fall in love of 1 girl... nah that film is nasty and hilarious. I loved the music, very repetitive like Mr Oizo (Dupieux yeah again) and that stay in your head. Image and music stay in your head, and will never leave you. Be brave my friend !

This movie try's way too hard to be funny. These positive ratings may make you think 'hmm maybe there's something here that I am missing.' Trust me there's not. People just want to be in on some secret as badly as this movie wants to be unique.

I'm the type of person that watches all the way through even the worst movies looking for something redeeming. Absolutely nothing to be found. I was so angry about wasting my time that I felt it was my duty to save others from it.

This movie is no good movie, its better off as a weird alternative reality comedy. this gives the movie rewatch value. the unpredictability is intense, wheras in other "good" movies, its simply the good guys win generally. bye

Absolutely loved this movie. At the time of watching I hadn't heard much about it except it was highly rated by empire magazine. So when I watched it late at night in the dark thinking I was about to see a horror/slasher movie, I was a bit taken back when I realised it was a comedy I was watching!, And maybe it was because I was expecting a completely different type of movie but I was taken by surprise how funny it was. Now I completely understand why people don't like it, in fact I've recommended it to so many people some of which blatantly refuse to watch it and others who have, and of those who have I don't know any who did like it! It certainly is not for everyone, but for those who enjoy there humour off the wall and lines you'll be able to quote for years to come, give it a chance. And by the way after RE checking empire magazine, the movie won empires comedy of the year!!!!