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SOURCE-Vestron Video Blu Ray
When I hear people saying that the 90s was dead for horror or the more common variant of that now "Horror was dead in the 90s until Scream." I know whoever is saying that either wasn't around back then or is someone that only watched what hit wide release in theaters back then.
Today's movie is a perfect example of how wrong the whole horror was dead in the 90s is.
Premiering in late October 1996 on HBO The Dentist is another great film from Brian Yuzna. I was lucky the night this aired I happened to be over at the home of my almost in-laws. And my lady's mother loved horror.
Corbin Bernsen is the titular Dentist. Racked with OCD and losing his mind he finds out his wife is cheating on him with the pool cleaner. This drives Corbin off the deep end and he starts killing people for various reasons.
Being a Yuzna film you know we are gonna get some gore and the FX work from Anthony C. Ferrante and J.M. Logan are great. Almost all practical FX work.
Add in that most people have a fear of going to the dentist and you get a film that works on a few levels.
This Vestron Video Blu ray is packed with extras. Got a great commentary from the director and Makeup Effects supervisor. Which is loaded with info. A really fun interview with Corbin Bernsen and one with the co writer Denniss Paoli.
One interesting thing pointed out in the commentary,and one my now ex pointed out while we were watching this almost 30 years ago,is the film kind of plays with is this actually happening or is all the kills in Bernsen's head? Kind of like the film American Psycho years before that movie was made,and yes I know the novel AP is based on came out before The Dentist. Also like the American Psycho movie,the sequel to the Dentist lets us know that it wasn't all in the lead's head.
For a fairly cheap price you get both Dentist movies. Both loaded with extras and both looking better than I have seen them look before.
The Dentist gets a B-
