A Tom Hosler Film - Dr.Benderfax (1997)
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DR.BENDERFAX is a highly esteemed medical researcher who will do whatever it takes to reach a scientific goal. Unfortunately, the doctors unorthodox experiments often result in the termination of his human patients, so he and his partner, Nurse Clench, acquire a psychiatric hospital and use the resident mental patients as subjects for their enigmatic research. Just as the formidable BENDERFAX makes a breakthrough in his research of a mysterious psycho-physical phenomenon, called the telefaximial field, a do-good young doctor named Andrew March stumbles upon the sordid truth about the Institutes experiments and threatens to expose the deadly operation.
Written and Directed Tom Hosler
Produced by Tom Hosler and Kata Jacobson
Music by Hans Jorgen Fjellestad
CAST
Steve Gouveia.............Andrew
Merode Patterson.......Carmen
Nicholas Berry..............Farance
Jeff Blumberg...................Detective
Caroline Hazeldine............Nurse Clench
Nigel Hazeldine..................Dr. Benderfax
Running time: 78 Minutes / Color / 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio / Stereo / English Language / USA 1997
PARENTAL WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS COMEDIC VIOLENCE, COMEDIC BLOOD AND GORE, AND STRONG LANGUAGE. RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES.
THIS VIDEO RECORDING OF DR.BENDERFAX IS FOR PRIVATE HOME VIEWING ONLY, AND
IS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR ANY OTHER USE. DUPLICATION IN WHOLE OR PART IS PROHIBITED. ALL OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED.
DR.BENDERFAX ©1997 TOM HOSLER & KATA JACOBSON
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The Hollywood Reporter Film Review:
Dr.Benderfax Injects Humor, Horror
Tom Hosler's pic is Troma-like -- and that's meant as a compliment!
The goon show meets the evil doctor genre in Sixth Avenue Pictures imaginatively dotty send-up of this particular blend of gothic horror. Cheeky and witty, this low-budget comedy won a Silver Medal at the 38th annual International Cinema in Industry Awards. Although its oddball humor and bargain-basement aura may preclude it from major distribution, Dr. Benderfax seems ideally suited to the Troma wing - it has that kind of nutball intelligence.
Plotwise, Benderfax is straight out of the Von Stroheim school of ghoulish drama: A young physician, Andrew (Steve Gouveia), seeks employment at an obscure research institute headed by a megalomaniacal doctor, namely Dr.Benderfax (Nigel Hazeldine). However, Benderfax has not prospered out of witlessness and based on Andrew's good grades and his ability to draw anatomically correct dogs, he hires him on the spot. But as all you German expressionists know, things are not exactly what they seem at the institute - especially down in "that room".
You don't have to have your head wired to electrodes to know what will likely happen next: Andrew discovers the not-so-good doctor is doing experiments on live people. In short, it's one of those one-life vs. science philosophical constructs. What is most fun about Benderfax however, is the film's satiric slant on the genre.
Narratively, writer-director-cinematographer-driver-cook and chief effects washer Tom Hosler has welded together a Monty Python-ish take on horror movies. It's both daffy and droll.
The actors give a boost throughout, especially Hazeldine as the amoral Benderfax, whose slithery James Mason-ish enunciation is constantly amusing. As the innocent young doctor, Gouveia brings the proper well scrubbed manner to his role, and Caroline Hazeldine, as Nurse Clench, is entertaining as a libidinous Nurse Ratched type.
Despite its low-budget blood type, Dr.Benderfax is technically well put together, including some impressive computer graphics and animation not usually associated with such an opus.
-- Film Review by Duane Byrge
The Hollywood Reporter, December 29, 1998 - January 4, 1999 Issue
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