Definitely should have been a short film.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 26, 2021

Make this the greasiest feast since that goose you cooked on Christmas...a good time for all, and a great excuse to let loose and become your most primal self.

| Mar 11, 2021

The Greasy Strangler becomes an exhausting slog. Such paltry ambitions make the film the exact opposite of everything it's longing to be. In a word, it's boring.

| Jan 5, 2021

You may hate it with every fiber of your being, but you'll never, ever forget it, and I'm fairly certain the filmmakers will be just fine with that outcome.

| Apr 28, 2020

Like a winded joke without a punchline.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2019

It is less a film and more the terrifying fever dream of a stressed out stray dog living in a failing thrift store.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 22, 2018

You embrace The Greasy Strangler for what it is: surrender to its vile idiocy and have the time of your life, or walk away, dull, boring and oh-so-clever.

| Aug 25, 2018

I just wish it were enjoyable, rather than merely disgusting.

| Jan 24, 2018

It's not a film for everyone, and even a Z film lover could see himself outdone, but that's the great virtue of the movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2017

With its relentlessly crude filmmaking, this gonzo horror-comedy feels like Beavis and Butt-Head tried to make a mash-up homage to John Waters and David Lynch. Except that the movie is never remotely funny or scary.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 6, 2017

Despite its repulsiveness, The Greasy Strangler has a dreamlike quality about it: It's so un-life-like, that you're transported to a fantasy world that's unmistakably a cinematic creation.

| Feb 23, 2017

Like the faceless strip malls and broken vending machines of its setting, The Greasy Strangler is the manifestation of Americana's inescapable shallowness, rendered down and smeared across the screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2017

The Greasy Strangler needs to be seen on the smallest screen possible, with the sound off.

| Jan 1, 2017

...a unique film by an emergent auteur that truly wallows in the abject and is all the better for it.

| Original Score: 18/20 | Nov 1, 2016

Its willful determination to be outré proves its undoing.

| Oct 27, 2016

Most of the humor derives from the aggressively depraved presentation, which is hard to sustain for 90 minutes. But as trashy, you-gotta-see-this provocations go, well, you gotta see it.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2016

Bonkers, and destined to be an instant cult item, which raises the question of whether you can design a movie to be cult.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2016

It's vile, it's intrusive, and it's annoying, but it's strikingly, creatively, and impressively so. And, to boot, really freakin' weird.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2016

To steal a line from Mystery Science Theater 3000, every frame looks like someone's Last Known Photo.

| Oct 14, 2016

It made me chuckle, made me wince a little-and it made me enjoy telling people about it and watching them squint dubiously at me as if they suspected me of making it all up.

| Oct 13, 2016