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In Giallo Julian's first Indie Spotlight, he looks at upcoming found footage, horror festivals, and more! Read it now on Dread Central.

I hesitate to call "The Greasy Strangler" a horror-comedy because its more surreal than humorous. The key distinction between humor and surreality is whether or not a joke is played for laughs. Many of the gags in "The Greasy Strangler" arent really funny, but rather repulsive, confusing and annoying. Thats not a knock, but rather an observation. This is, after all, a film where a disco-obsessed older man (who looks like a spray-tanned Spalding Grey wearing a Beethoven wig) competes wi...