The Greasy Strangler (2016)
Directed by Jim Hosking
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.
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You think of the films that came to constitute the revered “midnight movie” canon—Eraserhead, El Topo, early John Waters, Pink Flamingos—while perhaps the most credible recent example, at least in terms of pushing the limits of watchability, is Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers, of which Hosking’s film vaguely resembles a de luxe remake.
Not since the Pink Flamingos days of John Waters and his gutter-trash aesthetic has there been a more divisive carnival of filth, sick humour and depravity than director Jim Hosking's bad taste slasherama.
Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble are clear tonal touchstones, as are grubby '80s horrors like Basket Case and Maniac Cop.
Two of the film’s producers are Elijah Wood and Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Doctor Who, High-Rise), both of which saw something in Hosking that convinced them to help him create what would have been classified in the UK as a “video nasty.”
Two of the film’s producers are Elijah Wood and Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Doctor Who, High-Rise), both of which saw something in Hosking that convinced them to help him create what would have been classified in the UK as a “video nasty.”
Equal parts The Human Centipede, Napoleon Dynamite and the surreal output of children's network Nickelodeon, The Greasy Strangler's closest bedfellow is probably the comedy of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.