VIDEOGASP!: The Greasy Strangler Will Grease Your Mind

Director: Jim Hosking Writers: Toby Harvard, Jim Hosking Stars: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo Country: USA Language: English, release date: 7 October 2016 (UK)

Elijah Wood isn't just a scary guy (?), he also likes scary movies. He is producer to many indie horror films (Cooties, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Maniac, Open Windows, The Boy) and he even acts in some of them. The latest movie he produced is the "Greasy Strangler", Jim Hosking's debut. Hosking directed "G Is For Grandad" segment in "ABC’s Of Death 2" and his first feature film looks like Quentin Dupieux made a movie for Troma Entertainment.

The "Greasy Strangler" is not the horror comedy it was advertised, instead it’s a family movie, just a very fucked up one. It’s a father and son story that share a love-hate relationship of interdependence and competition. I recommend that all male readers should watch this movie with their fathers, or their sons, or both.

(This is how you should watch this movie)

Brayden is a middle-aged virgin with a slight mental retardation, that looks like a giant baby with premature ageing. He lives with his father "Big" Ronnie, a grumpy old man with the only thing making him differ from an even older woman is his long parsnip-shaped penis that he lets out hanging like a ripe fruit ready to fall, in every opportunity he sees fit. The son is taking care of his father by making him the greasiest, grossest looking breakfast possible every single morning, and the father is providing his son a roof above his big and ugly head which he threatens to remove with eviction whenever his breakfast is not greasy enough.

"Bon appetit"

As if it wasn’t bad enough that they live together, they also work together in the family business, a Disco walking tour, which the thing they do is to wear a pink outfit and walk around L.A. telling lies about famous Disco bands of the 70's. This is how their daily routine goes on until in one of the tours Brayden meets Janet, a girl so hot and spicy in taste and looks that made his salivary glands squirt like a fire hose in Hell. Something that "Big" Ronnie doesn’t like at all because he wants his son next to him, cooking bacon with bacon in bacon fat and not trying to eat Janet’s bacon. That's why he tries to seduce his son’s seducer with his meat-parsnip, and prove to his boy that all women are bad.

(Who can resist this?)

Let’s talk about the weird part now. Along with the daily activities of the love triangle, we watch the nightly activities of the "Greasy Strangler". A serial-killer who lurks in the narrow streets of the city and strangles innocent passers-by. A slimy creature so repulsive, that it looks as though your own diarrhoea came to life, so pissed-off that you dumbed it, that wants to strangle you with it’s bare hands (?). But when the strangler starts to strangle Brayden’s friends, the latter begins to suspect that the "Oily Choker" is his own father and decides to solve the mystery of the "Fatty Throttler".

"That’s what you get for watching movies like this"

How is a story like this going to end? Who’s gonna eat Janet’s bacon? Who is the killer and why? How long will you stay motionless wondering "What the fuck did I just watched?" after the closing credits? The "Greasy Strangler" is not the horror comedy it was advertised, instead it’s a family movie, just a very fucked up one, and by saying fucked up I mean surreal scenes that you can't tell what’s the meaning of. Funny scenes that are too disgusting to laugh, and disgusting scenes that are too funny to disgust. Weird repetitive dialogues and weird repetitive music that unfortunately gets stuck in your head. The "Greasy Strangler" is an unconventional, bizarre but enjoyable movie, worth seeing only for the experience, and worth recommending it to friends just to troll them.