YMMV / Criminally Insane

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment
  • As the film switches between normal colorization and psychedelic, Ethel hacks up a legless mannequin with a meat cleaver, which is intercut with random shots of a cemetery, then a scene of Ethel dressed all in red running down a path.
  • Almost everything Greg does in the sequel.
• First Installment Wins: The first film, while not exactly a cinematic masterpiece, is still better received than the sequel and the rest of Nick Millard's work.
• Memetic Mutation: Thanks to Best of the Worst:
  Ethel: You give me those pretzels, granny!
  Hope: I will not.
• No Budget: The sequel used a cheap VHS camera and... nothing else. No lighting rigs. No boom mics. No makeup. Nothing. Even the set was someone's house, reportedly the director's mother's, who also played Hope.
• Padding: That... dream sequence, or whatever the heck it was supposed to be, and nearly goddamn everything in the second film. Special mention goes to the orderly who spends his time putting dog food on plates.
• Sequelitis: Crazy Fat Ethel II is a serious downgrade from the first film in every possible way.
• Special Effect Failure
  • The blood in both films appear to be red paint.
  • Edgar's death in the sequel is so inept, it's almost hilarious. All the knives Ethel sticks in his back slant to the right.
• Spiritual Successor: 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.
• Squick: The rotting bodies and Rosalie drinking from a beer can that had a cigarette lying on it.

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