After my wisdom tooth is removed, I decided to see a horror movie about teeth called The Dentist (1996), but I actually watched it last two weeks. I think it's a lot fun and excellent extremely underrated horror film of the 1990s. It's scary, gory as hell that makes you never want to go to the dentist again. It was based on the story about the real-life serial killer dentist, Glennon Engleman (1928-'99). But all other than all this, I'd give it a 10 out of 10. I enjoyed it very much and loved! JUST A LITTLE WARNING: If you have a dentist phobia, just DON'T watch it!

The 90's had quite an interesting list of great and bizarrely over-the-top horror flicks and this is one of them! Let's just look at the story. The beloved doctor Alan Feinstone is a dentist and his patients always feel very comfortable with him. He has some mental issues but manages to hold it together... until he sees his wife cheat on him. Does he talk with her about it? Does he demand a divorce? No, he goes f u c k i n g nuts! He can barely concentrate at work and is more annoyed with his patients than usual. Because of his delusional thoughts, he turns a boy's teeth to crust (which is one of several extremely uncomfortable dental gore scenes in the movie). But this is where the movie doesn't make any goddamn sense. Sure, the police arrives later, but shouldn't it already be, you know, when he tries to rape someone?! It's almost incredible, since he is called out on his s h i t by others as well, and still more patients keep rollin' into his little nicely decorated room to get their teeth fixed. However, this plot-hole is for the better good. It gets more and more absurd and there are several unforced moments of black humor when Corbin Bernsen with glee delivers his sleazy, unhumanizing lines. What makes the movie even crazier is that instead of taking a break, he acts like if there's no problem and still wants to do his job. Jesus Christ. It's hard not to spoil too much, but the ending is one of the most memorable ones for a horror movie ever. Most of the other stuff in the movie is ridiculous, but that creeped me out for real.Watch this movie if you want to have a good laugh! I'm not a fan of horror movies with copious amounts of gore otherwise, but it was used effectively here!

A dentist (Corbin Bernsen) goes mad when he discovers his wife is cheating on him with the pool boy. Of course, it doesn't help that he already had an unnatural obsession with cleanliness. But he's being tracked by both the IRS and two detectives, including one played by the genre favorite Ken Foree.This film attracted my attention by being brought to us by the creators of "Re-Animator". Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon are a pretty incredible team, and I've thoroughly enjoyed their body of work. Sadly, I think this one falls short of their other projects. Aside from the girl who plays Sarah, the acting is cheesy and over-the-top, the film quality is poor, and the general plot is just weak, with some sort of opera tie-in that doesn't really make sense.The real strength of this film is in the special effects and makeup. While some of the scenes aren't exactly realistic (such as the molar destruction scene), the effects crew went out of their way to be disgusting and gory, which is what makes this film memorable at all. Many people dislike tooth trauma in horror films, so this is going to leave them feeling very uncomfortable. I don't like teeth being pulled or knocked out with hammers, but the way this film presented it, I found the gore more enjoyable than disturbing.For the most part, "The Dentist" is a forgettable film and not something you need to see or own. I haven't seen "The Dentist 2" yet, but I suspect that one isn't much better. Perhaps you'd be better off with "Dr. Giggles" or "Novocaine".

The brilliance of this movie is that even a competent dentist is pretty scary. It's one of man's primal fears. This movie is the nightmarish image every kid has to go through in the waiting room. Corbin Bernsen gives a surprisingly non-lackluster performance as a crazed dentist who I guess tries to kill people but he only works on their teeth so it's not really working out. In a particularly gory scene we find so-so actor Earl Boen having his teeth completely destroyed with drills and whatnot, which I guess is the absolute worst you can do when you're a killer dentist. It's a typical Brian Yuzna situation, not well written but there's gore. The plot is shoddy and at times seems to be made up on the spot but hey, it's a killer dentist movie, we've all thought of it but they did it first.