Criminally Insane (1975)

Recap

So there is Ethel, she has mental problems, so she gets shock treatment. Unlike her quack she knows that electroshocks don’t work, she prefers eating. Her grandmother is the first one to try to get between Ethel and the food. It doesn’t end well.

For me, watching this movie was a dare, because it’s marketed as a bad taste exploitation slasher comedy, the worst of the worst, making fun of the fat, yadda yadda yadda yadda, you must feel the subconscious need to punish yourself to switch on a movie like this. But guess what, I have seen worse. In a way, this really is a movie. The storytelling, the cinematography, the editing, all this is done as if they really tried to make an actual movie, and Youtube channels that make money with commercial breaks are uploading several turds every day which are so much worse.

I didn’t read too many of the reviews, but I bet that there are people who will tell you that this is indeed a tragedy and that Ethel and her sister are some metaphorical hyperbole analogies or whatever for our constant and futile struggle with reality. Of course they are wrong, this is a piece of trash and not a piece of art after all. But at least they are closer to the truth than those who accuse this movie of fatshaming or whatever. It is what it is. It’s not a good movie, but it’s a good thing that I watched it.