Dan and I are doing 31 Days of Halloween, mostly on our Facebook pages, but I’m going to crosspost my blurbs that I think would be of particular interest to my fellow Oily Maniacs here on the WordPress movie blogosphere.

It was my turn to pick the movie last night for Wide Weird World of Cult Films and me, and so I picked The Oily Maniac. A contract negotiation over the sale of a coconut oil factory turns into a knife fight, but then someone brings a machete to the knife fight. In a clear case of self defense he is sentenced to death, but not before he showed his leg disabled future son-in-law the tattoo on his back that tells you how to get revenge by becoming, you guessed it, an oily maniac.

It is important that the Oily Maniac is disabled because when he starts his killing spree, he is the last person the cops suspect because of his crutches. That’s positive discrimination!

When he becomes oily, the maniac either travels via a moving puddle of oil or by parkour, and among the people he kills are two rapists, a liar, an unlicensed plastic surgeon, and his grifting boss down at the law office. That’s right, the Oily Maniac is a lawyer. And all but about five people in the movie are reprehensible. So he has no objection to killing a lot of people because the squeaky wheels get the grease!

Oily Maniac is both the sleaziest and the funniest movie I have seen all year. At one point I got really tickled and then made the mistake of trying to take a drink and I spit lemonade out of my nose. It hurt! But not as much as the pain of what finally happened to the Oily Maniac. Because as he was warned in the beginning by his tattooed friend, if you ever try to kill someone who doesn’t deserve it, you die horribly.

Oily Maniac is the perfect emulsion of a kaiju movie, a regular Shaw Bros black magic movie, and some comic book bullshit. I don’t know if I’m going to find a butter movie to recommend to you this October.