Dr. Giggles

1992

Action / Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 7175 7.2K

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Plot summary

In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off residents one by one. When Jennifer and her friends break into the Rendell house out of morbid curiosity, Evan notices Jennifer has a heart condition similar to his mother and decides to make her his final victim.


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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 7 / 10

...Take two of these and call me in the morning!

When it comes right down to it, the slick, stylish "Dr. Giggles" is really no more than your usual 80s style teen-oriented slasher, with a gimmick. The good news is that it's mostly done in a strong tongue-in-cheek manner, with its villains' dialogue often consisting of clichéd lines associated with doctors. It does get serious at some points, but never too serious, and damn if it doesn't deliver some enjoyable kills and one hell of a great "I gotta rewind that and watch it again" money shot.

Evan Rendell, Jr. (Larry Drake) is a demented "physician" determined to get revenge on the citizens of the town of Moorehigh, on behalf of his dearly departed dad, a doctor who'd similarly gone crazy. Now he's out to perform all sorts of unauthorized surgery. When he discovers that a potential victim, Jennifer Campbell (Holly Marie Combs of 'Charmed'), has a heart condition, he takes pity on her, and because he does consider himself a doctor, changes the theme of his murder spree to supposedly help her out.

Nicely shot (by Robert Draper) and effectively paced, "Dr. Giggles" (so named because of Evan Jr.'s nervous habit) makes the most out of its medical theme with its merry antagonist utilizing all sorts of doctors' tools to off his mostly unsympathetic, typical slasher movie type victims. And Evan always has just the right quip for every occasion. However, one of the brightest moments doesn't involve a kill, but rather Evan examining a glassy eyed little boy as he monotonously obsesses over a video game; his subsequent line is priceless. And that aforementioned money shot, when it's shown how Evan Sr. smuggled his son out of the family house, is wonderfully creepy / cool stuff. The KNB group supply the excellent gore.

The under-rated Drake is hilarious; he delivers his one-liners perfectly and clearly can play insane very well. The lovely Combs is very appealing and the supporting cast features a bunch of well chosen, familiar faces: Cliff DeYoung as Jennifer's father, Michelle Johnson as the father's girlfriend, Richard Bradford as a veteran cop, and Nancy Fish as a nosey neighbour. The late Glenn Quinn plays Jennifer's boyfriend and Keith Diamond is great as the ultimately heroic Officer Joe Reitz.

The final portion of the movie is a little too predictable, with more than one ending, but that had already come to be a standard aspect to the slasher film. Taking everything into consideration, die hard fans of the sub genre should be amused.

Seven out of 10.

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 8 / 10

Just the tonic!

Do modern horror movies often leave you feeling tired and listless with a dull ache behind the eyes and a throbbing sensation at the back of the brain? If so, I recommend making an appointment with Dr. Giggles, an enjoyable slice of early-90s comedy/horror silliness that delivers a controlled dose of fun that'll have you back on your feet, right as rain in no time.

Larry Drake plays escaped lunatic Doctor Evan Rendell, nicknamed Dr. Giggles because of his incessant high-pitched laugh. Returning to his childhood home, where his equally loopy father was stoned to death by locals for removing the hearts of several unwilling patients (in an bid to find a suitable replacement for his wife's dodgy ticker), Rendell sets about resuming his father's work.

With a villain that spouts numerous corny one-liners whilst butchering his victims, an ageing policeman hiding a life-long secret, and the action taking place in such clichéd locales as a funfair, a lunatic asylum, and a deserted old house, this film mercilessly lampoons the slasher genre, taking the craziness to the next degree, including death via thermometer, giant sticking plaster, blood pressure gauge and stomach pump.

Director Manny Coto keeps things moving at a brisk pace and his film looks marvellous throughout, with great use of vibrant colours and innovative use of camera placement. Star Drake miraculously manages to keep a straight face while delivering the most (intentionally) painful lines of dialogue, and the rest of the cast—which includes Holly Marie Combs, Doug E. Doug, Cliff De Young and Michelle Johnson—deliver equally measured performances, their seriousness in the face of such absurdity being most admirable.

The other stars of the film are the excellent effects by the KNB group: although several of the murders are free of gore, the scenes that do get messy are satisfyingly graphic, with the most memorable moment being the 'rebirth' of the young Evan from the corpse of his mother, the child having been sewn inside her body as a means of escape! I don't know about you, but that is precisely the kind of demented lunacy guaranteed to put a spring back in my step.

7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 2 / 10

Lame slasher with way too many jokes

Yet another worthless slasher film, this time copying the oh-so-lame jokes that Freddy Krueger was fond of. Yes, we're with another repulsive murderer who can't stop churning out predictable wisecracks each time he kills. Original? No. Exciting? No. Mildly amusing? Perhaps, but only due to the fact that there's so many jokes that at least a few have to be funny.

The acting is atrociously poor; the teenagers bear absolutely no skills or talents, and have no right to be considered as actors. Larry Drake (DARKMAN) enjoys himself as the over-the-top baddie, and to be honest I couldn't imagine anybody else in this particular role. But his skills are limited too and he remains a one-dimensional character. Only the characteristic which gives him his name is memorable.

The thin plot glides through one graphic death after another; the plot is written specifically for the deaths, written around them in fact. There are never any clever twists or surprise endings, or good moments. The nearest the film comes to interest is in a weird Hall of Mirrors spook house, but even this is mishandled and unrealistic. It is only the excess gore which makes this film watchable, and at least it doesn't skimp on this.

Needles pierce flesh, hearts are extracted while their donors live, and surgical instruments impale unwilling flesh. But for the piece de resistance, it's something else entirely. This is a single scene which the whole film may just be worth sitting through for, involving the naked corpse of a woman lying on a cold slab. This is a shocking, sickening moment and has to be seen to be believed. Otherwise, give this lame slasher a miss - or you'll be needing a doctor yourself.

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