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Crazy Fat Ethel (2016)
Hollywood should take note.
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.