CRIMINALLY INSANE is an outrageously cheap and cheerful slice of slash-and-dash from the exploitation-heavy decade of the 1970s. It's a film that's never going to win any awards for acting, script, or direction, but the sheer numbskulled simplicity of the storyline somehow makes sense and undoubtedly grindhouse fans will get a kick out of some of the gruesome antics put on screen. Put simply, the obese Ethel comes out of an asylum and goes home, where she grabs a cleaver and hacks up friends, family, and neighbours, in between eating. There's a lot of eating. There's no subtext here, nothing much apart from all the fake red paint blood, but I guess some may enjoy that anyway.
Review of Criminally Insane
