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980: 340:, threatening to evict Brayden if he does not allow him to. There, Ronnie attempts to kiss Janet, but she resists, saying that she may be in love with Brayden. Despite this, the pair inexplicably have sex. They mock Brayden when he runs from the house in despair. This later leads to a heated argument between Ronnie and Brayden. 351:
That night, Janet declares her mutual love for Brayden, and they decide to get married. Ronnie, hiding under the bed, reveals himself, claiming Janet as his lover and evicting Brayden. Janet replies that Brayden can live with her. Ronnie covers himself in grease, slaps Brayden, and drags Janet out of
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movie but without the sophistication”. More than seven years after the original review, in a column of critics reappraising their zero-star reviews, Ide doubled down on her scathing criticism: “I probably could have tolerated all the artless, attention-seeking gross-out antics and the barely veiled
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The next day, on a beach, Ronnie reveals that he secretly cares for Brayden, despite his annoyance with him. They bond over, in hindsight, their disgust with Janet. They cover themselves in grease and head to a forest where they murder Ricky Prickles. In a surreal turn of events, they then witness
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Brayden then professes his love to Janet. Ronnie overhears this before going to the car wash to strangle and decapitate Paul. The next morning, Brayden calls a detective named Jody and reports that Ronnie may be the Greasy Strangler. Jody - who is actually Ronnie in disguise - visits the house the
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At night, Ronnie completely covers himself in grease and strangles residents of the town, soon becoming dubbed "The Greasy Strangler". After his killings, he cleans himself of the grease by standing in a car wash run by a blind man named Paul. During one of the walking tours, Brayden meets a woman
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the house with him. Brayden covers himself in grease as well and follows the two to a movie theatre, where Ronnie is strangling Janet. Brayden, upon seeing this, opts to strangle her instead. Her eyes pop out of her head, which both he and Ronnie consume while watching the movie.
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author. Ronnie allows Brayden to live with him, seemingly because Brayden prepares excessively greasy food for him. Ronnie asserts that Brayden drove his mother away, though truthfully, she left Ronnie for a fitness expert named Ricky Prickles.
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named Janet, and they begin a romantic relationship. One night, Ronnie strangles a hot dog vendor he had gotten in an argument with earlier, causing his eyes to pop out of his head, which Ronnie cooks and eats.
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next day, and Brayden and Janet show him a spot of oil left behind on the carpet as evidence that Ronnie is the Greasy Strangler. Jody concludes that the oil is meaningless
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One night, Brayden and Janet have sex. Ronnie attempts to seduce her the next morning before he kills Oinker, Brayden's best friend. He later takes Janet out to a
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gave it zero stars, stating “there’s nothing to this relentlessly inane horror comedy once you get past all the genitals”and describing it as “Like an early
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definitely isn't for everyone, but filmgoers in step with its off-kilter stride are in store for a singular cinematic experience." On
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for his 'James Franco's Movie Column' in Indiewire: "Fake Penises Aren't the Only Funny Thing About
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contempt for the characters and the audience – if the film wasn’t also so thuddingly tedious.”
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The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of June 2020, it has a 63% approval rating on
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Mangan, Lucy; Nicholson, Rebecca; Petridis, Alexis; Ide, Wendy; Pidd, Helen (May 23, 2024).
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won The Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards 2017.
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on January 22, 2016. The film was released on October 7, 2016, by
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won Best Comedy at The Empire Magazine Film Awards 2017.
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In contrast, Wendy Ide of the Guardian’s sister paper
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Jim Hosking
Andrew Starke
Ant Timpson
Elijah Wood
Elizabeth De Razzo
Andrew Hung
Drafthouse Films
Rook Films
SpectreVision
FilmRise
Sundance
black comedy
horror film
Jim Hosking
Sky Elobar
Elizabeth De Razzo
FilmRise
pathological liar
the Bee Gees
disco
space fantasy
discotheque
circumstantial evidence
executed by firing squad
Sky Elobar
Elizabeth De Razzo
John Yuan
Matthew Yuan
2016 Sundance Film Festival

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