 So, he says to me, my favorite horror series of all time is the Conjuring. So what'd you end up doing? I threw him off a bridge! Yeah, I actually threw him off a bridge. Oh, look, we got a new patron request from John Adano for the dentist, 1996. Did you actually throw him off a bridge? Hello and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure, but before we get started, what are we drinking? We're drinking Tooth Decay Mosaic IPA. Very fitting, because today we're covering the dentist from 1996. This is a patron request by John Adano. This movie was directed by Brian Usina. He did so many horror movies, but one that we gotta mention is Bride of the Reanimator, which we covered. You can click the link above. And Society is another one. What a fuckin' weird movie. It was also co-written by Stuart Gordon. He did tons of horror movies, but the Reanimator we gotta mention. This movie stars Corbin Burnson, and he's in tons and tons of TV, probably most well-known for LA Law. Ken 4A, or Ken 4, he's been struggling over pronouncing his fucking name for, like, a decade or more here. A decade. For a decade. Of course, he is in Dawn of the Dead, the best zombie film of all time. He's not in his underwear in this, though. No, he's not in his yellow git. So we get introduced to Alan Feinstone. He's this very respectable dentist. He's very clean-cut, very well-dressed. They got a pool boy outside, muscular and everything, and sweating, and he suspects a little bit of something going on with the pool boy and his wife. Probably like any man would if you got some kind of fucking hunk pool boy. I should have dressed like the pool boy. Yeah, you should have. He goes into his car to go to work, but he actually doesn't go to work, he comes back, and he actually does catch his wife screwing the pool boy for fuck's sakes. He is full of all that brown shit, all that sludge coming out of the filters. And she's all touching it and into it and sucking his finger and all that sludge on it. Going down on him, it's like super, actually, it's pretty graphic. This really sets him off. He ends up following the pool boy, and this fucking pool boy is servicing that woman too, for Christ's sake. Four ways than one. They have a dog, though. The dog ends up getting out and he ends up just shooting the dog. Finally going into the office, there's tons of people waiting. Taking this little kid in and it's his first time to the dentist. And while he's picking at his teeth, he starts thinking of his wife in the filth and decay and starts getting all distraught, jamming that pick into the kid's gums and tearing them all to shit. On top of that, in comes the IRS guy, Erwin R. Scheister. He's fucking given this dentist guy the gears. He's got some problems. I got a little bit of work that he's doing here. But the IRS really does that. If you take care of my problem, I can take care of your problem. His next client is his beauty queen. Well, she's under. He starts picturing that it's his wife groping her and he's like putting his fingers in her mouth. He's all taking her panties down. He's taking her panties down. Her agent is there waiting. He's like, what's taking so long? We have an appointment that we got to get to. He opens up the door and sees the dentist is all like getting in there and her panties are on the ground. Oh, no, no, she's reacting poorly to the gas. The manager takes the beauty queen and walks off. I'm going to sue you too. It's this dentist. It's like the worst day of his life. Everything's just falling to pieces. And all this is happening on his wedding anniversary. His wife is supposed to pick him up from the office to take him out for dinner. He wants to show her his new kind of themed room. Romantic Paris theme. Gets her in the chair. Opera music's playing and straps her in. He's like, well, what's going on? Puts the gas on. Pulls out the fucking tools, man. And he goes to town. Oh, yeah. I know what you've been up to. It's the next day. He's at home and cops show up at his house. Dog was killed and a couple of doors over. You know anything about that? Oh, no, no, I don't know anything about that. Pool boy shows up to finish the work that he had started the day before. Skimming the pool and pulls it off. His tongue comes out. What's his tongue all about? The dentist's wife is kind of sunbathing with a hat over her face like this. Pulls it off and her mouth is all torn up and disfigured. She's got her tongue missing and everything. Dentist comes out of nowhere with the scalpel and slits his throat like tons of times. There's blood going everywhere. So at this point, he's lost his fucking mind. He goes back to his office. There's a whole room of people waiting, including the guy from the IRS. You all need some sort of work done. And that's where we're going to end the plot. If you want to see how the dentist ends, finish watching it. But is it trash or treasure? Well, that'll lead us to the treasure part of this. For this type of movie, for a straight to video kind of movie, the acting's top notch. There's not one straight to video performance in the movie. And the dentist is the perfect starring role in this. He's great. Which leads us to the characters. They're all good. They're all memorable. You watch the dentist once. You remember the dentist. You remember actually all of the front office desk at the office. You remember they're all really memorable people. There's also the customers too. They're waiting, right? There's the Marilyn Monroe type woman. There's the girl with the braces that everybody can relate to. The fucking IRS guy. Yeah, they're all memorable, like well thought out characters. The effects in this movie are great. Actually, they're really good. Especially when he starts mutilating people's mouths and you see the aftermath like the wife goes to town on that IRS guy. He's all just fucked. He's got that big apparatus on his face. That crank thing. Super cranking it like... Crank's jaw. And he's all drilling his tongue. Holy fuck. You see inside the mouth and he's like taking out like teeth like with this drill and it looks really good. Where you're like, oh. Couldn't have picked a more cringe worthy thing. Exactly. Right, then your mouth, your teeth. Cause like it's so relatable. And this insane man going in there just doing whatever he wants. And nobody likes the dentist, right? There's also the sounds too. There's the sounds of his gloves. All that squinching sound of the gloves. The drill. The drills. The crunching and the maiming of the teeth. Like... And the kills are pretty good too. Even though there actually aren't that many kills. Yeah. He more maims than anything. Big survival rate. But these people aren't left with much of a life after. No man. Is the problem, right? There's the one woman that he strangles with the pantyhose cause she discovers what he's been doing. With the pantyhose. Yeah, exactly. And the other dental assistant he kills with the syringe with the air bubbles in it. Right to her brain. Right, Halloween II style. The humor in this movie is great and it's intentional. In the first 10 minutes when you see the pool boy getting with the wife and he's all that brown sludge shit is on him like, okay, I know that this is intentional. I was howling several parts of this movie just laughing uncontrollably cause it's so ridiculous. Well yeah, of course. And then especially with the dentist being so clean. Even subtly humor like the girl that wants to get her braces off and she's showing up day after day hoping today is the day and like, oh, he didn't get to you today. She comes back the next day sitting there all happy and he didn't get to you today. Premise is pretty good and pretty actually relatable too in real life because for real dentists have some of the highest rates of suicide out of any profession it seems. Kind of sympathize with him a little bit. Not totally, but a little bit you do. Kind of see where he's coming from but the means to an end is sort of a little arguable there. That brings us to the trash of the dentist. I think the pacing is probably the biggest piece of trash in this movie. It starts off really good. He's fantasizing about killing the pool boy and he doesn't. Then after that, it takes him a long time to really fall off the deep edge. They were going for a steady decline into madness, right? Yeah, a slow burn, yeah. But it's too slow for the type of movie that it is. When you watch the dentist, I want to see him killing lots of people with dentist tools and shit. Right away. Right away. I don't want to wait 45 minutes for him to just start naming people. I want to see some good deaths. You're looking at your watch and you're like, man, he better pick up the fucking kill count here. And he kind of does, but not quite enough. Not enough. It's not enough to really ruin the movie but leaves you wanting so much more. Sadly, the music is a piece of trash in this, too. And it's done by horror movie legend Alan Howard. He's scored so many movies with John Carpenter as a collaborator and it's like, this just sounds like straight-to-video 90s generic boring horror movie music. Exactly. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Like, what the fuck? There's nothing special about it, there's nothing intriguing, there's nothing that builds tension. It's just boring shit. Shame on you, Howard. Come on, you could have did better than this. Yeah. Good lord. Phoned it in big time. Fuck, he must have got a big paycheck or something. And another piece of this trash is the fact that Ken Four, Ken Foray, isn't used enough in this movie. Barely in it. Yeah, it's like, why even have such a great man in this movie if you're not gonna fucking use him? So that brings us to the consensus, the dentist, trash or treasure. I think it is pure treasure. It's treasure. It's actually a lot of fun. It is. Besides a few points we mentioned, I had a blast while I was laughing and having a good time for most of it but did a little bit of this for some of it, you know? Right, exactly. But it does make you cringe, makes you go like this a lot, which is what it was intended to do. That's what a horror movie should do. Exactly. And there's actually a sequel too, which I really wanna watch. So until next time, keep drinking.