Dr Giggles
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Actor: Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Holly Marie Combs, Keith Diamond, Larry DrakeDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Good Times Video
Movie Reviews of Dr Giggles
Movie Review: Just What The Doctor Ordered
Summary: 5 Stars
It's silly, it's predictable, it's got every cliche in the book, it's full of awful one liners and bad puns, it bombed at the box office, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Dr. Giggles was a movie that came along at the very end of the long slasher movie run. I'm talking about the original slasher movie run now, not that idiotic "I know I'm in a slasher movie" genre resurrected by Scream a few years later. Slasher films exist today in one form or another, but usually direct to video. Dr. Giggles was one of the last, if not the last to hit theaters. Around this time the public wasn't really "feeling it" anymore when it came to this genre, and the film makers here must have known it, so it was decided(wisely if you ask me) to play Dr. Giggles tongue in cheek.....and tongue in cheek it certainly is! This is why I don't understand these schmucks who whine about the film not being scary. Well, it's awfully clear it's really not supposed to be. Hell, the title should be a hint. Most slasher flicks use revenge as the motive for the killer's killing spree, and Dr. Giggles is no exception, but there is a twist. Dr. Giggles comes back to his hometown to slaughter everyone for revenge of the lynching of his father many years back. His father was the town doctor who killed many patients in order to find a heart for his dying wife. About half way into the film Dr. Giggles decides to try to attempt the heart transplant that his father never got the chance to try(Dr. Giggles' mother eventually died from that failing heart). Conveniently enough, our leading lady has a heart problem, and becomes the doctor's focus. So, he takes a hiatus from mass murder and chases our heroine all around hell and back in order to get her into his operating room. Naturally he kills anyone who gets in his way. It's weird coz the one character who's the target is the one who you really don't have to worry about being killed. It's an interesting twist in a rather cliche riddled film. Nothing in this movie is meant to be taken seriously. If you haven't realized that by the time he kills the town slut with a giant Band-Aid, you'd better just shut the movie off. The real star of this film is Larry Drake. It wouldn't be half as fun without his performance. You won't be able to help yourself from laughing at the rotten jokes and puns, and he's never at a loss for one. One of my personal faves being when he shoves a bone saw into a guy's stomach and says, "you think that's bad, wait til you get my bill". And of course there's the giggle. Since it has a rather definite ending, I don't think this was meant to be a franchise, but it would have been nice to see more Dr. Giggles mayhem. Very funny movie and definitely worth a watch if you're into the sillier side of the horror genre like Ice Cream Man, Leprechaun or Jack Frost. Lets just hope it gets rereleased on dvd.
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