Criminally Insane

I've got a growing fondness for exploitation movies from the 70s and 80s, for some reason, these movies are just the best! Low budgets, good acting and very strange stories, and one of the movies that has all of this and more is Criminally Insane.



Criminally Insane was originally titled Crazy Fat Ethel and it's the story of...well...Crazy Fat Ethel. Here's the story: Ethel likes to eat and God help the person who gets between her and what she likes, because they're gonna get hurt...bad! Ethel isn't right and she's just been released from the asylum to live with her grandmother. Now, grandma thinks that Ethel is a little overweight and wants her to diet, when Ethel won't cooperate, grandma locks the cupboard. Now, this irritates Ethel and she tries to break into the cupboards to get at the food, when grandma catches her, it quickly escalates into violence and grandma winds up with a knife in her! Ethel panics, not wanting to go back to the asylum, so she hides grandma and just keeps on living in her house. But now, when a relative comes to visit, things just get stranger and stranger and everyone who gets between Ethel and her food gets the grandma treatment and soon there's a room upstairs that's filled with corpses and they're not getting any fresher up there!

Criminally Insane is a nice little low budget horror movie, and I'm giving it three out of four cigars.

It loses one cigar because it drags on just a little too long, it could have ended about a half an hour sooner and been perfect! Criminally Insane is classic exploitation at it's best!! So, until next time, when I'll tell you about how many people I've had to kill just to keep on my diet, remember that the best movies are bad movies.