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There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Vile, crude, disgusting, hideous, degrading, nonsensical: "Criminally Insane" (AKA "Crazy Fat Ethel". Seriously.) is a movie that just has it all. It's a bewildering exercise in bad taste, merely watching it makes you feel like you desperately need to take a shower. Furthermore, it has the unique ability to make everything some people hate about Z-grade schlock into a merit. Just take the film stock this movie is shot on, for example. It looks like someone was embalmed in it, but that's exactly how you want it to look. Forget about the pretty colors and high definition, this right here is what it's all about. The actors also add a lot to the general uncomfortable atmosphere: Priscilla Alden is great as the deadpan lead, but the bit characters are actually just as good. The spineless Sarah Jessica Parker-faced sister who just for the hell of it is also a prostitute, her abusive make-up wearing boyfriend/pimp, the random drunk dude (a sadly brief cameo), the shock therapist, the oddball police inspector, you don't want any of these people living next door. Oh, and then there's the dialogue. This script is so full of gems that it's hard to keep up, can humor get any darker than this? I don't know how "Criminally Insane" was ever intended, but the finished product is incredibly awesome. Dig it up if you can, it's totally worth it.

Fat Ethel Janowski enjoys eating a lot.After staying in an asylum and having electro shocks therapy Ethel is released to live with her grandmother.Ethel wants to eat and her grandma tries to stop Ethel's eating habits.Ethel murders her grandmother with a kitchen knife and she can eat peacefully as much as she wants.In the meantime more murders take place.Technically crude,raw and suitably unsettling cult psycho-slasher about murderous obese woman.The gore effects are lame,the blood looks like a red paint,but the central performance of Priscilla Alden is great.I haven't seen the sequel of "Criminally Insane" or "Death Nurse" movies,but someday I will.8 out of 10.Don't mess with Crazy Fat Ethel.She will butcher you with meat cleaver and eat your tasty flesh.

Let me open up by setting the mood for this one. When "Criminally Insane" was first released in the theaters there was a large, industrial sized scale placed in the lobby of selected theaters where it was shown and any woman weighing over 250lbs was admitted to the film for free! This should help set the mood for this poorly filmed, inept but highly entertaining horror-cheapie. The saving grace of this film is the hysterical Priscilla Alden (the 250lbs actress who plays the role of Ethel Janowski). She plays the lead character so dead pan that you cannot help but be entertained by her as she fries a pound of bacon at a time, cooks a dozen eggs, or toasts an entire loaf of bread! Food is actually a character in this film and it is Ethel's worst enemy. She kills 6 people in between stuffing her face with a half-gallon of ice cream, an entire box of vanilla wafers, or a dozen sweet rolls and when she runs out of ideas about how to conceal the bodies...she eats them! Meanwhile she is also the rudest woman you will ever come across, concerned only with her next meal as she spouts anti-semitic statements about her doctor and calls the grocery boy (whom she had just murdered) a "smart-alec kid". So grab yourself a gallon of ice cream and enjoy this 70's horror gem!

The 70's is truly a great era for cult cinema. With classics like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Last House on the Left", "I Drink Your Blood", "The Crazies", etc, it is no doubt that we have a gem of a movie called "Crazy Fat Ethel" or better known as "Criminally Insane". Although, far more low-budget than some of the other horror/slasher flicks coming out at the time (not by much, though) this was a whole lot of fun and is certainly not a waste of 1 hour (that's right, the movie is 1 hour and 1 minute long).The story starts with Fat Ethel being released from an insane asylum. Her kind Grandmother picks her up and takes her to her townhouse in the city. One night Ethel decides to go downstairs for a midnight snack and discovers that all of the food has been locked away. It turns out that Granny wants to put Ethel on a diet. Well, poor Granny gets sliced up with a butcher knife thus starting Fat Ethel's murderous rampage. She kills the grocery boy when she doesn't have enough money to pay him. She kills a friend of her Grandmother's who is just checking in. She even murders her sister and her slimy boyfriend.That is most of the movie. I won't give the ending away but there is a sequel, so you can imagine how this movie ends. For the most part, this movie was a great "B" slasher from 1975. It's funny to think that the term "Slasher" isn't really recognized until "Halloween" and "The Friday the 13th" movies came along. But no doubt, this is definitely a slasher. For most of the murder scenes Fat Ethel is slicing people up with either a butcher knife or a meat cleaver. And though it isn't very gory it makes up for it with all the excessive blood use.If you are looking for a campy, no-budget, 70's slasher check this one out. I am glad I did. 8/10