The Greasy Strangler

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The Greasy Strangler

2016

1h 33m

Horror

Comedy

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Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden (Sky Elobar). When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet (Elizabeth De Razzo) comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also brings about the appearance of an oily, slimy, inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent-soon dubbed the Greasy Strangler.

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Critics Consensus

The Greasy Strangler definitely isn't for everyone, but filmgoers in step with its off-kilter stride are in store for a singular cinematic experience.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The Blue Lenses

Aug 25, 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.

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Kristen Yoonsoo Kim

Complex

Feb 23, 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.

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Andy Webster

New York Times

Oct 27, 2016

Its willful determination to be outré proves its undoing.

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

Apr 26, 2021

4/10

Definitely should have been a short film.

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May Leitz

Nyx Fears

Mar 11, 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.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Jan 5, 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.

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B P

@Bradster69 Sep 28, 2026

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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Mathias F

@RT23320979 Jun 13, 2026

worst movie i have ever seen... i was hoping i would get immediate eye cancer because it would be better than watching this horrible piece of burning trash.

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David B.

@RT14283473 May 24, 2026

Stupid and bizarre, I couldn’t stop watching it!

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Cary T

@RT38829730 Apr 19, 2026

Did you enjoy Andy Kaufman's humor? Painfully unfunny your thing? Then this film is for you. Take an unfunny premise/line, beat it to death, and then defile the corpse. It's the quality of movie you would have made in your senior year of high school while drunk/stoned out of your mind. Do yourself a favor and spend the time you would use watching this to instead hang out with your least enjoyed aquaintance; you'll have a better time. Yikes.

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Nick M

@NickMWWWWWWW Mar 16, 2026

This movie was enlightening. My whole philosophy on life has changed, because of this masterpiece. Please be prepared to possibly cry in tears as you are engulfed by Jim Hoskink's work.

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Michael P

@RT74118852 Sep 20, 2025

very intellectual and a fine masterpeace

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Synopsis

Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden (Sky Elobar). When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet (Elizabeth De Razzo) comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also brings about the appearance of an oily, slimy, inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent-soon dubbed the Greasy Strangler.

Director: Jim Hosking
Producer: Elijah Wood, Tim League, Ant Timpson, Andrew Starke, Josh C. Waller, Daniel Noah
Screenwriter: Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard
Distributor: FilmRise
Production Co: SpectreVision, Rook Films
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 7, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $41.7K
Runtime: 1h 33m

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