Dr. Giggles
by Manny Coto
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Actor: Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Holly Marie Combs, Keith Diamond, Larry DrakeDirector: Manny Coto
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Dr. Giggles
Movie Review: A Surprise: 'Dr. Giggles' Is A Funny Guy
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a surprisingly entertaining B-type film with a lot of good lines by "Dr. Giggles" (Larry Drake).
"Dr. Giggles" is a mad doctor who has this high-pitched giggle when he kills people, which is frequently.It sounds hokey, and it is, but it's done with great tongue-in-cheek humor. Actually, that's what I think this is: a takeoff on grisly horror movies. Drake's Ines, mostly doctor clinches, are very funny and his face is strange enough so that he fits the part.
This movie is well photographed, too and with nice color sand some good camera angles.
Overall, I'd rate this a "sleeper," something much better than anticipated.
Summary of Dr. Giggles
When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured. The giggling new "doctor" uses the surgical skills he picked up from his father and a near-lifetime spent in and around medical facilities to gruesomely do away with his victims while he awaits the chance to perform his ultimate revenge -- giving one of the townsfolk a heart transplant, without anesthesia!Strictly for horror buffs with an appetite for gratuitous gore and bloodshed, Dr. Giggles is appropriately titled, since the title character (played by Larry Drake, best known as Benny from TV's L.A. Law) is a psychotic killer who chuckles uncontrollably as he eviscerates his victims. Having escaped from a mental hospital, he returns to the town where he was raised to seek bloody revenge on those responsible for the death of his mad doctor father. His chosen payback method is a lot of unnecessary surgery. But then he takes pity on a teenaged girl who desperately needs a heart transplant. Of course, he's got plenty of involuntary donors! That should tell you enough to know if you'd actually want to watch this movie, which is actually worth a few laughs--or at least a few giggles--if you're into this kind of thing. Drake puts everything he's got into his performance, and you have to admire his effort in the service of a lost cause. --Jeff Shannon
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