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To me, this movie is perfection.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This movie is no good movie, its better off as a weird alternative reality comedy. this gives the movie rewatch value. the unpredictability is intense, wheras in other "good" movies, its simply the good guys win generally. bye

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.

I loved this movie. But not at first. At first, my reaction was similar to the other reviews on this page, something to the tune of "What the hell have I gotten myself into??"But toward the end of the movie, I began to remember some of the things I learned while studying film.I believe, and I could be wrong, but I believe the entire movie is a metaphor. Now, for what I can't say, or I would have to use the spoiler tag. What I want to say is this: give the movie a watch, because it's campy and amazing. The costumes are great, the locations and the lighting are well done, and the lines are funny at the very least. If you like Harmony Korine, John Waters, or Napoleon Dynamite (which I didn't, but it didn't stop me from enjoying THIS movie), I would say this movie is for you. If you like art house films, weird movies, or movies with an underlying deeper message (that is pretty wonderful once you look at it that way), you are in for a treat.

To trap 'The Greasy Strangler' in words would do a disservice to its oddness. I watched it only with the description that "it's about a guy who covers himself in grease and strangles people". And that's all you need to know to enjoy it. That description would fit a horror movie; the best description I could come up with is an Absurdist Drama. But the genre is unimportant, like I say all description is unimportant, just watch. Most movies that begin and build on elements of weirdness can't sustain this vibe. The unnatural characters, the random plot developments, the sublime atmosphere of the world within, it becomes boring when the shock wears off. The Greasy Strangler sustains this weirdness the entire run time. And viewed without any inspection as to what it might all mean, it's still a very enjoyable movie. I'd say there's something deeper going on here too, not a moral message or anything, but it's a movie about family, about fathers and sons. Well, no, about one very specific very weird father-son duo. It's all there in the background and whether you want to look for it or not I'd recommend giving The Greasy Strangler a watch.