History Film / CriminallyInsane

%%* AssholeVictim: John.

%%* DomesticAbuse: John.
%%-->Rosalie, I'm going to tell you the truth for once, okay? You need a good beating every once in a while. All women do. And you especially.

%%* FatBastard: Ethel.

* PaterFamilicide: Ethel kills her grandmother, her sister, and her sister's boyfriend.

%%* TheSeventies: 1973.

%%* VillainousGlutton
%%* VillainProtagonist

* SpiritualSuccessor: The ''Death Nurse'' duology, two films also directed by Nick Millard, and starring Priscilla Alden as a deranged murderess. It also helps that both films reuse footage from this film as stock footage.

* DaylightHorror: Every murder except the first.

* DomesticAbuse: John.
-->Rosalie, I'm going to tell you the truth for once, okay? You need a good beating every once in a while. All women do. And you especially.

* LadyDrunk: The briefly mentioned Mrs. Janowski.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Or hack, in this case.

* AirplaneArms: Done by Ethel in [[LeaveTheCameraRunning a really, really long]] scene.

* BondOneLiner:
--> '''Ethel:''' (after killing Hope) Looks like I just lost hope. ([[EvilLaugh laughs]])

* StockFootage: Roughly a quarter of the film.

A bit of a CultClassic, ''Criminally Insane'' had a poorly received shot-on-video sequel thirteen years after its initial release, though much like ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' and the sequels to ''Film/TheBoogeyman'', it consists primarily of footage recycled from its predecessor. What little new footage there is has Ethel being dumped in a lax halfway house due to extreme budget cuts to the asylum she was placed in, and it isn't long until her appetite and murderous urges get the best of her.

Institutionalized for an indeterminate amount of time due to suffering from a number of problems, the most prominent of which is her violent mood swings, the morbidly obese Ethel Janowski is eventually released into the care of her grandmother despite the protests of one Doctor Gerard, who suggests that Ethel come in four times a week for electroshock therapy. Once home, the surly Ethel starts stuffing her face, eating her poor grandmother out of house and home. Becoming fed up with Ethel's gorging, granny empties the refrigerator and locks all the food away in the cupboards, telling Ethel that it's high time she went on a diet whether she wants to or not. Not taking this well, Ethel proceeds to stab her grandmother to death and cuts the key to the pantry locks out her cold dead hand.

With no one around to stop her, Ethel goes on an eating binge and quickly runs out of food, necessitating that she order more from the local grocery store. When the teenaged delivery boy shows up with the food and demands payment for it and other overdue bills, a frustrated Ethel murders him, barely having time to lock the body in her grandmother's room with the old woman's rapidly decaying corpse before her prostitute sister Rosalie shows up needing a place to stay. Begrudgingly giving Rosalie and Rosalie's abusive pimp and boyfriend John room and board, Ethel spins a lie about how their grandmother has gone away to visit someone and beats Doctor Gerard to death when he stops by asking questions about where Granny Janowski is, and why Ethel has not gone to her scheduled treatments. With the bodies piling up (not to mention smelling terrible) and her housemates and the police becoming suspicious, Ethel starts to crack even more. What is a fat, unstable woman who just wants to eat in peace to do? Oh yeah, kill everyone!

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ethel is quite an anti-Semite in the film, and when it's theorized the missing delivery boy may have been robbed, she suggests the mugger was a colored.

%%* DeathBySex: John and Rosalie.

* CoitusEnsues: Rosalie and John get hot and heavy on the couch with Ethel sitting nearby.

* KnifeNut: Both a regular knife and a meat cleaver.

With no one around to stop her, Ethel goes on an eating binge, and quickly runs out of food, necessitating that she order more from the local grocery store. When the teenaged delivery boy shows up with the food and demands payment for it and other overdue bills, a frustrated Ethel murders him, barely having time to lock the body in her grandmother's room with the old woman's rapidly decaying corpse before her prostitute sister, Rosalie, shows up, needing a place to stay. Begrudgingly giving Rosalie, and her abusive pimp and boyfriend John, room and board, Ethel spins a lie about how their grandmother has gone away to visit someone and beats Doctor Gerard to death when he stops by asking questions about where Granny Janowski is, and why Ethel has not gone to her scheduled treatments. With the bodies piling up (not to mention smelling terrible) and her housemates and the police becoming suspicious, Ethel starts to crack even more. What is a fat, unstable woman who just wants to eat in peace to do? Oh yeah, kill everyone!

Institutionalized for an indeterminate amount of time due to suffering from a number of problems, the most prominent of which is are her violent mood swings, the morbidly obese Ethel Janowski is eventually released into the care of her grandmother, despite the protests of one Doctor Gerard, who suggests that Ethel come in four times a week for electroshock therapy. Once home, the surly Ethel starts stuffing her face, eating her poor grandmother out of house and home. Becoming fed up with Ethel's gorging, granny empties the refrigerator and locks all the food away in the cupboards, telling Ethel that it's high time she went on a diet, whether she wants to or not. Not taking this well, Ethel proceeds to stab her grandmother to death, and cuts the key to the pantry locks out her cold dead hand.

With no one around to stop her, Ethel goes on an eating binge, and quickly runs out of food, necessitating she order more from the local grocery store. When the teenaged delivery boy shows up with the food, and demands payment for it and other overdue bills, a frustrated Ethel murders him, barely having time to lock the body in her grandmother's room with the old woman's rapidly decaying corpse before her prostitute sister, Rosalie, shows up, needing a place to stay. Begrudgingly giving Rosalie, and her abusive pimp and boyfriend John, room and board, Ethel spins a lie about how their grandmother has gone away to visit someone, and beats Doctor Gerard to death when he stops by asking questions about where Granny Janowski is, and why Ethel has not gone to her scheduled treatments. With the bodies piling up (not to mention smelling terrible) and her housemates and the police becoming suspicious, Ethel starts to crack even more. What is a fat, unstable woman who just wants to eat in peace to do? Oh yeah, kill everyone!

A bit of a CultClassic, ''Criminally Insane'' had a poorly received shot-on-video sequel thirteen years after its initial release, though much like ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' and the sequels to ''Film/TheBoogeyman'', it consists primarily of footage recycled from its predecessor. What little new footage there is has Ethel being dumped in a lax halfway house due extreme budget cuts to the asylum she was placed in, and it isn't long until her appetite and murderous urges get the best of her.

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Doctor Gerard barging into the house in search Grandma Janowski, and John and Rosalie's complaints about the smells emanating from the locked room making them threaten to knock in the door (Ethel even points out before killing Rosalie that she should have just ignored it).

* ImAHumanitarian: The film ends with a detective, called after a neighbor finds a severed hand in the trunk of Ethel's car, discovering Ethel in the middle of gnawing on a severed arm.

* KnifeNut: Both a regular knife, and a meat cleaver.

* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Ethel props John and Rosalie's corpses up in a bed, and talks to them while scarfing down some potatoes.

* NailedToTheWagon: Grandma Janowski decides to clean out the fridge, and lock all the food in the cupboards so Ethel can't get at it. Big mistake.

* PaterFamilicide: Ethel kills her grandmother, sister, and her sister's boyfriend.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ethel is quite an anti-Semite in the film and when it's theorized the missing delivery boy may have been robbed, she suggests the mugger was a colored.

* BlatantLies: The opening credits, since they're stock footage from the first film, with nearly three-thirds of the cast not in the film.

* MediumBlending: The film was shot on a cheap video camera (complete with a motor being picked up on the mic), which intercuts with the original that's shot on film. The different is striking.

* WallCrawl: Greg is convinced he is a lizard, and thinks he can do this.

* YourCheatingHeart: One of the reasons why John and Rosalie briefly broke up.

* DomesticAbuser: John.

* MediumShift: The film was shot on a cheap video camera (complete with a motor being picked up on the mic), which intercuts with the original that's shot on film. The different is striking.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: This movie could win some kind of award for this.

* ChaseScene: A rather {{Narm}}ful one, with Ethel chasing Doctor Stevens through the halfway house.

''(Cue Ethel going stabby-stabby)''

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A remake of the first film, using the alternate title ''Crazy Fat Ethel'', is set for release in 2015.