Crazy Fat Ethel (2016) User Reviews

Pretty decent

[BandSAboutMovies · 5/10 · 11 December 2022]

I had no idea that Brian Dorton directed and wrote a remake of Nick Millard's Criminally Insane. One could argue that Millard did the same with his sequel, as it uses so much footage from the original movie. Yet this time, we get more of the story of Ethel (Dixie Gers) as she annihilates everyone that gets in her way.

Ethel may have killed her Uncle Joe, which is why she's been in a sanitarium all these years, but when two orderlies assault her, she's released and in the care of her Aunt Joyce. Yet she eats so much food that her guardian must lock it away, which drives her to the brink and beyond, and before you know it, Aunt Joyce is dead too.

Made with real animal guts, this movie in no way shies away from the gore. There aren't many movies that have a death by inserting a smashed wine bottle into someone's nether regions, much less a POV anilingus shot.

Yet beyond all the sleaze and guts, this movie has a great performance by Gers. You actually understand Ethel a bit more by the end and if anything, feel for her plight if not understand it.

Great B Movie Schlock

[johnjohnson68510 · 26 October 2018]

Inappropriate in so many ways, there is something deliciously satisfying about this junk movie. The acting is actually watchable -- realist/naturalist kind of stuff, with these offhand gestures that really lets you smell the cheese. Maybe i was just in the mood. Nice, clean narrative line. I think these guys could all have done better work if they'd wanted to

Ethel must eat ! Or else !!!

[BrendanBakos-1 · 8/10 · 26 October 2018]

I decided to donate to this film around 2016 , Made for around $50,00 with such a tiny bubjet the diretion , actors , production do so much with it !!! The film is never boring has great detail & flows along nicely , Ethel has a problem she needs & loves to eat ? & when doesn't get enough of that well let's just say things get out of hand !!! .The flim is a remake of another film made in the 70's.

Underrated Controversial Gem

[mcreynoldsavery · 10/10 · 15 August 2022]

Crazy Fat Ethel is not your traditional gross-out horror feature; rather, it deliberately veers into controversial, repulsive territory - at which is succeeds. I would liken it to Grindhouse material in its style, and fresh in its execution.

Hollywood should take note.

[tiffanyscott920 · 9/10 · 2 December 2022]

With no disrespect to writer director Nick Millard, the original director of Criminally Insane (1975) the film that Crazy Fat Ethel is based on, but this remake does everything right that the original got wrong. First, the blood and gore effects in the original are notoriously bad. With this version they are very real and gory. The effect go as far as the bloodiest Italian horror films from the 70's and 80's. Well done. The acting is up to par which is worth mentioning and even praising due to the crowed independent film genre being known for lacking in that department. The original film is 61 mins. Here we get 20 mins more and writer director Brian Dorton uses this extra time wisely for character development. Ethel is smarter and even more dangerous. Keep in mind the original is one of my favourite exploitation drive-in films from my day. I got the bluray off ebay thinking it was the original with the CFE title. I'm glad I did because otherwise I wouldn't have know there was a remake.