Criminally Insane (1975)

Directed by

Nick Millard

Genre

horror film, slasher film, exploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 01m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mentally ill woman with a violent past moves in with her grandmother after being released from a hospital. She kills her grandmother and other people, then tries to hide the bodies in the house.

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What happens

Criminally Insane, (also known as Crazy Fat Ethel), is a 1975 horror film written and directed by Nick Millard. Shot on location in San Francisco, it was followed by a 1987 sequel titled Criminally Insane 2. A remake, Crazy Fat Ethel, was released in 2016. In the film, a morbidly obese mental patient is released into the custody of her grandmother, despite a past history of violence. The grandmother tries to prevent the patient's gorging behavior by locking the cupboard, but she ends up killed by her own granddaughter, who goes on to kill further victims and hide the corpses in the grandmother's house. Her efforts to dispose of the bodies backfire and alert a neighbor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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