One of the other most talked about movies at Sundance this year, wasn’t one that had any chance at Oscar glory. Rather it was a small, weird, offensive, and kinda gross flick that warmed the hearts of fans of freaky cinema: “The Greasy Strangler.” It’s a movie that by all accounts you don’t just watch, so much as experience, and as the new red band trailer makes clear, whether you like it or not, you certainly won’t forget it.
Co-written and directed by Jim Hosking, and starring Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo, Gil Gex, Jesse Keen, and Joe David Walters, the movie is about a love triangle involving a father and son, and also a weird mutant killer. The synopsis will do a better job than me in explaining all of this:
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This Los Angeles–set tale follows Big Ronnie, a man who runs a disco walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman named Janet 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.”
“The Greasy Strangler” opens in theaters and hits VOD on October 7th.