The Dentist 2

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The Dentist 2

I was very much reminded of Stepfather II (1989) when watching this dull sequel. A lot of the interesting story and psychosis of the dentist was lost in favour of a boring serial killer story and predictable insanity. This was just not as gross as the original and not as interesting to watch. If there was a lot more killing then this would have been a fantastic sequel. Brace yourself as this is not really worth watching even if you've seen the first one.

Corbin Bernsen's psycho dentist escapes from the mental hospital and hides out in a small town where he soon picks back up where he left off, namely torturing and killing people. Gross sequel is not surprisingly a poor follow-up to the original, which wasn't exactly Nightmare on Elm Street to begin with. The biggest flaw with this one is that it's not much fun. It's also pretty dull and offered nothing new, just more gore and more gruesome deaths. I'm not naive enough to think that wasn't the target audience they were going for with this. Obviously people who watch for that stuff first and foremost will probably like it more than I did. I don't mind some gore, certainly not when done creatively and not like it came from the mind of a fifteen year-old boy. But when that's all a movie has or even tries to have...well, that bores me. See it if you really loved the first one. But if, like me, you only thought the first one was passable then don't bother with this mediocre sequel.

...but not worse than the first Dentist. Actually, I think this sequel is even slightly better than the original (a rare thing to happen in the horror genre). Sure, there's nothing new about this film, but as I already told you: it's not worse than the first. Dr. Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) has escaped a mental hospital and continues his work in a small town called 'Paradise' after getting rid of the local dentist. But soon his itchy drill finger starts to mutilate his patients in another series of disgustingly elaborate drill & kill scenes. Again, Corbin Bernsen does an excellent job as the psycho-dentist. And again, this film delivers very weird entertainment and gore galore. The ending leaves the possibility of another sequel. If you have a slightly sick sense of humor you might like it, especially if you liked the first Dentist. My rating: 4/10

"You just couldn't have your tooth ache somewhere else, could ya?" The mad dentist escapes, and for awhile, seems relatively sane again, living under an assumed name in small town Missouri. Then something gets under his teeth and it all goes horribly wrong...again. This sequel is pretty much on par with the first, except the running time seems excessively long, they could have extracted a few scenes to trim it up.

After escaping from a mental institution, Dr. Allen Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) moves on to the small Midwestern town of Paradise and becomes Dr. Lawrence Caine. Unsuccessfully trying to fight off personal demons and homicidal thoughts, the deranged doctor finally snaps, kills the town's only dentist and takes over his business, which results in several gory murders. Meanwhile his ex-wife Brooke (Linda Hoffman, returning from the original) is out for revenge. This direct-to-video sequel manages to out repulse the previous entry with lots of gory close-ups of teeth being yanked out or chewed up with a drill, needles going into skin, cut out tongues and more. Most of the supporting cast are as grating as the non-stop dental tool background soundtrack. If you want gore and no more, you got it here.

I watch a crap Ton of horror movies and this is a decent sequel to the first Dentist. Really not much difference other than the cheesy ending. Still, to have such a good actor like Corb is such a win for even a flawed script.

'The Dentist' was pretty much a series of (okay and better) bloody scenes, but in this one Yuzna tries to build things up more, more like a thriller (although it starts out with a pretty nasty drill scene!). Here, Dr. Feinstone escapes and goes native. Unfortunately, the build-up isn't all that exciting. But after that long while it turns out that Bernsen worked on his delivery and Yuzna on the funny-sadistic lines of Feinstone. So, more humor enters, but also the gore is turned up quite a bit - just in time. Just don't try to look for too much logic in there, and it'll be fine. Fairly boring parts ánd exciting horror stuff considered, I can appreciate this one as much as I did the first.