The Dentist (1996)

Los Angeles dentist Corbin Bernsen, driven over the edge when he glimpses his wife going down on the pool man, spends a few days acting out every waiting room horror story you've ever heard: a molar is unnecessarily ground to bits, the wife has a total extraction (including the tongue), a beauty queen is groped under nitrous oxide, an income tax man has his jaws dislocated by a clamp and a teenage girl whos ebraces have just come off is forced at gunpoint to sswear not to eat sweets and brush three times a day. Brian Yuzna has yet to follow up his remarkable debut Society, and this isn't much more than a succession of gruesome sketches - featuring ingenious but obviously fake big mouth effects - linked by Bernsen's Stepfather-alike ranting. Worth a cringe or two.
KIM NEWMAN

First Published In: Empire


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