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What a treat it is that this film sits on my shelf, next to Vertigo & There Will Be Blood. Greasy Strangler riffs on so little, but manages to produce a film that is repetitive to the point of memorable. Every day since watching it, I have to call someone a BS artist.The pleasure of first watching this film I can compare to the first time I watched Happiness (Todd Solondz) Just when you think it's going a bit too far, it surpasses your guesses and goes further still. Detractors will say it's easy to be disgusting but let them write a script, film it, edit it and get it out there in cinemas and shops. Well done, those who made Greasy Strangler.A companion piece could be the story of how Elijah Wood and Ben Wheatley became producers for this film. I imagine the script, greasy, slipping through their letterboxes and as they read, they look around their houses, wondering if someone is playing a joke on them.
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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.
