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An escaped mental patient poses as retired dentist Dr. Caine in Paradise town. His new life seems perfect until jealousy over his landlord Jamie triggers his murderous urges, just as figures... Read allAn escaped mental patient poses as retired dentist Dr. Caine in Paradise town. His new life seems perfect until jealousy over his landlord Jamie triggers his murderous urges, just as figures from his past arrive.An escaped mental patient poses as retired dentist Dr. Caine in Paradise town. His new life seems perfect until jealousy over his landlord Jamie triggers his murderous urges, just as figures from his past arrive.
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
Rende Rae Norman
- Dr. Genevieve Cussler
- (as Rendé Rae Norman)
Greg Bronson
- Restaurant Patron
- (uncredited)
Gina-Raye Carter
- Sidewalk Cafe Owner
- (uncredited)
Spencer Kayden
- Sidewalk Café Woman
- (uncredited)
Michael Stadvec
- Matt
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Corbin Bernsen returns as the hilariously homicidal Dr. Feinstone in THE DENTIST 2.
Upon escaping from the mental institution, Feinstone sets up shop in the small, rural town of Paradise. This is made easier by the "accidental" death of the town's dentist. Now, the unwary folks have no idea who it is that's poking around in their mouths!
This time, Feinstone finds love with a local woman, only to have her cheat on him, just like his wife did. As in the first film, Feinstone goes into orbit, setting off a murderous cascade. Meanwhile, his now vengeful, ex-wife tries to track him down.
While not as insanely fun as the first film, this sequel is still worthy of repeat visits. This is due entirely to Bernsen putting in another sublime, crackpot performance!
Watch for Clint Howard and the amazing Wendy Robie!...
Upon escaping from the mental institution, Feinstone sets up shop in the small, rural town of Paradise. This is made easier by the "accidental" death of the town's dentist. Now, the unwary folks have no idea who it is that's poking around in their mouths!
This time, Feinstone finds love with a local woman, only to have her cheat on him, just like his wife did. As in the first film, Feinstone goes into orbit, setting off a murderous cascade. Meanwhile, his now vengeful, ex-wife tries to track him down.
While not as insanely fun as the first film, this sequel is still worthy of repeat visits. This is due entirely to Bernsen putting in another sublime, crackpot performance!
Watch for Clint Howard and the amazing Wendy Robie!...
Brian Yuzna is cast as a saviour by genre fans, and "The Dentist 2", along with the cherished "Society" might give you some idea why. Although the film offers little that could not be found in its prequel, it is somewhat better made, efficently exploiting dentophobia and riffing on the trust involved in a doctor-patient relationship. For the gorehounds, suffice to say three of the four people I watched this with walked out in disgust: taking the place of traditional death sequences are gleeful bouts of unanaesthetised dental destruction, performed with the aid of convincing models in unflinching close up. By this second outing Corbin Bernstein is really inhabiting the role of Dr. Feinstone, and his affectionately campy turn provides the film with much of its drive and humour. in one hilarious sequence he desperately admonishes himself in the shower: "nutCASE, nutBALL, wacko, loony..."
Though self evidently not to all tastes, this film certainly hits a nerve (sorry, that was accidental) and is made with some intelligence and respect for its intended audience. check.
Though self evidently not to all tastes, this film certainly hits a nerve (sorry, that was accidental) and is made with some intelligence and respect for its intended audience. check.
Debuting on HBO like the first surprise, this is a pretty good sequel that brings that lunatic dentist (Corbin Bernsen) back in business after escaping a mental hospital and hiding in a quiet town, where he murders the dentist around the town because the guy did a poor job at filling one of his teeth in. He impresses the people in town and woos a lady he's madly in love with, but then goes psycho and takes his madness out on his patients when he finds the girl he loves kissing a guy. There are scenes that make you laugh and dentist torture scenes that will make you cringe. Corbin Bernsen is great as the dentist and delivers a lot of good lines. Between the first and second half, the pace moved a bit slow, but if you liked the first one and can take watching close-ups of teeth being either drilled or yanked out, you should enjoy this strange, campy film.
This movie is basically the same as the first. He falls in love with girl, girl finds another guy, dentist takes revenge!! I'm not saying it wasn't any good but I am saying if you hated the first than you'll probably hate this one because there is not much difference but if you loved the first one then you'll love this one. Although his wife got her tongue cut off in The dentist I she is still alive and does she still want revenge in the dentist 2? Well find out and see The Dentist II. It gets ** stars out of 4.
Corbin Bernsen returns as the dentist who snapped when his wife had an affair and killed a bunch of people in gruesome fashion. Our "hero" manages to escape prison and resume life as a dentist in a quiet, unsuspecting suburban town with a police force that makes a soap opera cop look smart.
The cast has few notables beyond Bernsen, but his over-the-top performance takes this film to the mediocre yet very bloody and gory heights it aimed at. We don't get a movie that tries to be great, or even acutes who take the plot that seriously. What we get is what we expect: to be thrilled, chilled, repulsed, and petrified by the mixture of murder, mayhem, and dental equipment.
That we laugh and cheer when the hapless innocents are so deliciously dispatched in films like this is something for the psychs to wonder about, but until they figure it out, I'll be hooting and hollering right along with them.
If it didn't have tons of killing and gallons of blood, it would be good clean fun, but instead this movie is just good fun. Good, gory fun.
Enjoy when you have nothing better to do and want to see some torture and killing on screen.
The cast has few notables beyond Bernsen, but his over-the-top performance takes this film to the mediocre yet very bloody and gory heights it aimed at. We don't get a movie that tries to be great, or even acutes who take the plot that seriously. What we get is what we expect: to be thrilled, chilled, repulsed, and petrified by the mixture of murder, mayhem, and dental equipment.
That we laugh and cheer when the hapless innocents are so deliciously dispatched in films like this is something for the psychs to wonder about, but until they figure it out, I'll be hooting and hollering right along with them.
If it didn't have tons of killing and gallons of blood, it would be good clean fun, but instead this movie is just good fun. Good, gory fun.
Enjoy when you have nothing better to do and want to see some torture and killing on screen.
Did you know
- TriviaTrimark greenlit another sequel; The Dentist 3, but was never made. Director Brian Yuzna was too busy starting up Fantastic Factory.
- GoofsWhen Dr. Feinstone asks Robbie if he could be quiet for a while you see clearly the shadow of the camera.
- Quotes
Dr. Lawrence Caine: New game, Bevvie... truth... or tooth!
- Alternate versionsThe 1999 UK video was cut by 51 seconds by the BBFC "to remove sadistic details". Deletions were made to close-ups of bloody detail and degrading/sadistic dialogue during the "Truth or Tooth" torture scene. The 2001 DVD featured the same cut print.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90s (2019)
- SoundtracksDrinking Life All Wrong
(uncredited)
Written by Danny Kirsic
Performed by Danny Kirsic
Played as background music of Dr. Feinstone's dinner date and over Dr. Burns's radio in his room
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- Also known as
- The Dentist 2
- Filming locations
- Rossmore Ave. Los Angeles, California, USA(exterior 450 El Royale Motel)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m(100 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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