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

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

Its willful determination to be outré proves its undoing.

| Oct 27, 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

The best thing about "The Greasy Strangler": that title. The worst thing about "The Greasy Strangler": everything that follows that title.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 13, 2016

Like an early John Waters movie but without the sophistication, this aggressively inane horror comedy manages to cram in every disgusting, deviant activity you couldn't begin to imagine.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 9, 2016

It's supposed to be ironic and self-aware, full of deliberately poor line readings and stiff, stylised performances, but it's mostly tedious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2016

Is any of this funny? Sometimes, though not often. Is that intentional? Well, that's debatable. Is it worth seeing? Yes, but only if you enjoy being grossed out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2016

A grossout smack in the face. Deplorable. Unspeakable. Often funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2016

An ugly and frequently hilarious descent into all things repellent, the debut feature from director Jim Hosking plants itself firmly in a world of filth and shock.

| Oct 6, 2016

Hosking has a keen eye for this type of cringeworthy comedy, as evidenced by every scene going on 30 seconds longer than it should, and enhanced by over-the-top, cartoony violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2016

There are people out there who find gross-out internet videos funny, and these people will wholeheartedly embrace Jim Hosking's feature directorial debut.

| Original Score: C | Oct 6, 2016

Those who like this will love it. Those who dislike this will want the negative fired into the sun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2016

Hosking knows how to grab our attention, but not hold it in a meaningful way.

| Oct 4, 2016

If you can take the assault on your senses it's worth sticking with for a core of genuine, affecting drama and dollops of sly, quotable humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2016

So dripping with art-school irony that the effect is more mildly irritating than genuinely disconcerting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2016

It aims for John Waters-style transgression without evincing half of Waters's wit and affection for eccentric lifestyles.

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

It's a welcome oasis of filth, depravity and shock in a culture that too often thinks merely being a little weird passes muster.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2016

One long feature-length skin-crawl, a comic exercise in visceral discomfort that's all the more entertaining if you can check your gag reflex and lean into the ick.

| Jan 23, 2016