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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 [[Cult Classic]], ''Criminally Insane'' had a poorly received shot-on-video sequel thirteen years after its initial release, though much like ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]] Part 2'' and ''[[The Boogeyman]]'' sequels, 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.
In 2005, both ''Criminally Insane'' films got a DVD release by Shock-O-Rama Cinema, coming packaged with the vampire flick ''Satan's Black Wedding''. While the sequel is barebones, ''Criminally Insane'' was bestowed with a commentary track and an interview with the director, a producer, and its star, Priscilla Alden.
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* [[Airplane Arms]]: Done by Ethel in [[Leave the Camera Running|a really, really long]] scene in ''2''.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: One of Rosalie's clients.
* [[An Arm and
* [[Antagonist Title]]: ''Crazy Fat Ethel''.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: John, and the orderly and Edgar in ''2''.
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* [[Daylight Horror]]: Every murder except the first.
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: ''2'' ends with Ethel pretended to be Hope Batholomew, the halfway house director.
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Direct to Video]]: ''2''.
* [[Domestic Abuser]]: John.
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* [[I Love the Dead]]: Ethel sleeps with John's corpse.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: 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.
* [[Impaled
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Doctor Gerard is bludgeoned with what appears to be a candlestick holder, while Hope in ''2'' has her head bashed in with... something that looks like a goblet.
* [[Insane Equals Violent]]: Who knew slight paranoia over food could lead to serial murder?
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* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: Ethel props John and Rosalie's corpses up in a bed, and talks to them while scarfing down some potatoes.
* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: Food locked away? Kill the key holder. Don't have enough to pay the grocery bill? Kill the delivery boy. Sister and her boyfriend complaining about the rank odors coming from the always locked bedroom? Kill them.
* [[Nailed to
* [[No Budget]]: At $30,000, this was apparently director Nick Millard's highest-budgeted film.
* [[No Ending]]: The film literally ends with a detective finding Ethel partaking in cannibalism.
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{{quote| "You and that heeb are trying to starve me to death!"}}
** And when it's theorized the missing delivery boy may have been robbed, she suggests the mugger was a colored.
* [[Punk in
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]: Rosalie.
* [[Red Shirt]]: Rosalie's drunk client.
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