AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

utgard14 After catching his wife cheating on him with the pool guy, a disturbed dentist (Corbin Bernsen) goes on a murderous rampage. He's determined to root out decay wherever he sees it. Gory and violent with lots of dark humor. Not for all tastes, obviously, but if you're seeking out a movie about a killer dentist, you're probably halfway to enjoying it already. It's directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Stuart Gordon, so if you like the Re-Animator movies chances are you will like this. I thought it was okay but missing something I can't quite put my finger on. Mark Ruffalo is in this, years before he was a thing. I doubt he puts this on his resume.

Matt Kracht The plot: a mentally unbalanced dentist goes on a rampage after discovering his wife's infidelity.Brian Yuzna, Dennis Paoli, and Stuart Gordon are primarily known by their fans for their splatter comedies and Lovecraft adaptations. The Dentist is one of their goriest, cheesiest, and funniest splatter comedies. Corbin Bernsen takes over the lead acting role from their usual collaborator, Jeffrey Combs. Much like Larry Drake taking the titular role in the silly, over-the-top slasher Dr. Giggles, I was somewhat surprised that Corbin Bernsen would star in such a cheesy horror movie. This has made me a fan of both actors, since it's difficult for me to believe that they take themselves very seriously.The Dentist is unapologetic, enthusiastic exploitation, with very limited appeal outside of genre fans. Several Yuzna/Gordon/Paoli movies, including The Dentist, got sequels, so it appears that they've carved out a somewhat lucrative niche for themselves, even if mainstream success eludes them. People expecting a traditional, serious horror movie will probably be disappointed, if not actively annoyed. Like anything else by Yuzna or Gordon, it's also not for people with a weak stomach or sensitive nature.If you like this, then I'd suggest you check out The Dentist 2, Re-Animator, and From Beyond.

chaos-rampant I come to this as someone who appreciates these guys and is a lifelong fan of horror. It's by the Reanimator team, which means - or meant then - both shock and sendup: a dentist's perfect life goes horribly awry when he uncovers infidelity, and the psychologic damage spills over to the dentist room. He sets out to uproot foulness and spoiled purity, in our case quite literally and with some cringeworthy results.It's not what your film is about though, so much as good alignment of different layers. Suspiria has an unbelievable storyline about young ballerinas facing witching evil, but supports that with bewitching cinematic ballet in the joints. One dances off the other. In Videodrome, our reasoning tools collapse as the surrogate viewer's do inside the film, and we're both watching a film by the same name that upturns the center of consciousness. The Dracula story is about a reader's journey to meet with ancient evil, and bringing it back to our world in a way that reveals it to have been sexy and irresistible all along.Look here. The premise is tap into the dentist chair experience, probably horrible across the board, and abstract the worst fears into operatic enjoyment of the grotesque, which means soaking up passions from the air around the story. Italians were masters of that through an ingrained sense for opera and carnival (our loss in that case, is they couldn't resist the imposition of story).That is reinforced by all sorts of other decisions: two dentist rooms and both artificial-looking sets, one eerily painted over with clear , sunny skies in the walls, the second ominous with a heavy plum-colored velvet feel and supposedly inspired by La Scala (our doctor is a fan of opera). Tosca plays over scenes of hallucinated rotten teeth. That is the aria where Tosca ruminates on star-crossed fate, and directly ties into grandiose-minded inner monologues about foulness in the universe.One image that stays with me is the doctor holding a bloody kitchen knife before a pool that makes it look as if he's on a stage and about to take a bow before imaginary applause.So the slaughter we can accommodate as part of the spectacle, in fact that's the whole allure.There are at least two instances that equate the hand that torments with the hand that conducts imaginary opera, that is in itself, a hand that commands and invisibly conjures from the air. This alone reveals considerable skill (and in fact, warrants its own Sweeny Todd-type musical).Reanimator managed consistent story-tone and crescendo. Society turned the crescendo into orgiastic theater that parodied its own soap-operatic parody: the rich actually ate the poor.But, some of the victims here survive, and long enough for us to be reminded that they are human beings in horrible agony. It jerks us back out of the fantasy. The music abruptly stops and we're left with loaded feelings in front of something that requires quite a bit different response. Our inbuilt empathic machinery kicks into place. The film would have been perhaps salvageable, if our perspective of the killer was similarly jerked to the real world. He remains a 'loonie' (the actor can manage, and could have been a great Dr. Lecter).The result of what I call a poorly-centered film, in this case is that we are made to second-guess our enjoyment. We have to suddenly juggle pleasure with moral sense. It's effective because both are easy to sort through and the mind has powerful tools that allow us to make the shift and back again, many times over. But it feels exhausting and somehow unfulfilling in the end, like eating chocolate over cautionary videos of rotten teeth.

slayrrr666 "The Dentist" is a really enjoyable film whenever it stays inside the dentist's office.**SPOILERS**Talking to a patient, Dr. Alan Feinstone, (Corbin Bernsen) recalls an incident of his past, starting from when he caught his wife Brooke Feinstone, (Linda Hoffman) having an affair behind his back. Shattering his ego, he soon starts to lose his grip on reality, which crosses over into his patients. When assistants Jessica, (Molly Hagan) and Karen, (Patty Toy) question him about his outbursts, he denies it and tries to carry on. As it soon starts to get at him, he begins torturing his patients mercilessly and soon causes enough attention for Detectives Gibbs, (Ken Foree) and Sunshine, (Tony Noakes) to look at him. When they finally crack the case and decide to take him in, he races to get away before they catch up to him.The Good News: This one wasn't all that bad when it really mattered. This does manage to make out a few really great visual images, mostly based around the mouth. Watching the visions of gums with teeth knocked loose and disfigured, leaving the gums with a distinctly abnormal look, is a little off-setting, and their repeated use only makes them better. This also gets a little sleazy at times, which is a great sign. This has a perfectly sleazy sex scene for the initial discovery of the affair and an incredibly twisted scene in the office that has a ton of dirtiness to it. There's a general air to it that feels outright sleazy, and it comes across as deliriously mad. This one's big feature, though, are undoubtedly the dental torture scenes. These are incredibly long, brutal, bloody and queasily graphic, which just makes them unsettling. All of them are done in extreme close-up, making every extraction, scraping and bloodily movement even more uncomfortable to sit through, which mixed with the extreme joy they are performed with and the arsenal of terrifying instruments used gives them extra flair. There's also a very high number of them, which is a pleasant sight to see as well. These here give the film it's good moments.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot wrong here, but there were a few. One is the complete lack of interest to anything that isn't placed at the dental office. That's the movie's bread-and-butter, and while whatever happens there is extremely good, it fails to do anything remotely exciting away from it. The affair angle takes up a large amount of time despite it being introduced in the first twenty minutes, and there's no need to introduce the neighbors in anything, as it doesn't do anything with that. The finale is just the same, since it doesn't feel exciting or all the interested in exploring it. The other flaw is the extremely low body count, which is surprising considering all the torture scenes. They're bloody, but rarely deaths result, and even interesting ones at that, and that is a little discerning. Simply have another patient or two succumb to the to torture, as they would've been completely understandable. These here hold the film down somewhat slightly.The Final Verdict: While whatever takes place in the main office is pure gold, the lack of anything else interesting might be the film's downfall. This is still recommended for those looking for a really good creep-out film, while those with an extreme fear of dentists might be advised to skip it.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and sex scenes