Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff DeYoung
The psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor, escapes from his mental institution to seek revenge on the town where his father was caught. The giggling doctor kills his victims with a surgical them...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 22, 1998
Stats: 374 reviews
When I saw this as a kid, boy was I scared out of my wits! lol I would like to watch it again someday. I'll give it 3 stars for scaring me.
Larry Drake plays a demented Doctor who causes a lot of death. It's violent, but not overly gorey. It's not very suspenseful or scary. It's not very funny either. I didn't see anything special about it.
Gory, slick film tried to revive the slasher genre in the early 90s. It didn't work but it's not really any worse than most of the 80s slasher drivel. If only it were made about five years later...
One of my favorite overlooked slasher movies! lots of dark humor and gory brutal violence makes this a must see horror comedy.
Now here's a doctor that you certainly wouldnt want to go to if you was sick. SICK of course being the operative word as this is a sick bloody gory horror that nods an homage to Re-Animator. Some of the deaths are well done in execution and effects and Larry Drake does make a cre...( read more)
More silly slasher than horror comedy but not utterly terrible. The constant giggling is the most memorable part (except where the "Dr." forgot for a bit while on a murderous rampage). A throwback to the 80's slasher genre with even a bit of backstory as to why he kills and gigg...( read more)
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