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The psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor, escapes from his mental institution to seek revenge on the town where his father was caught. The giggling doctor kills his victims with a surgical theme. His goal being to give one of the townfolk a heart transplant. Written by
Rob Hartill
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The Doctor is out... of his mind
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When the two officers first enter Dr. Giggles house, Officer Reitz grabs a piece of cloth that got snagged on the wall. When he reads it with the flashlight, it reads: awood. It is in big, blurry black letters. Later on in the film when Officer Reitz is at the police station looking up files on the computer, he pulls out the cloth and the letters are different. They still read 'awood', but are now clearer and there is more writing on the cloth as well.
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Doctor Evan Rendell:
Laughter is the best medicine.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Soundtracks
"The Party's Over"
Written by
Betty Comden and
Adolph Green
Arranged and conducted by Joe Altruda
Vocals by
Kristen Vigard See more »
After escaping from prison and returning to his hometown, a deranged doctor sets about a blood-soaked rampage of vengeance on the citizens in town and forcing one of the locals to find the cause of his rampage before he can finish his work.
An impressive and highly enjoyable slasher, this here has a lot of impressive facets about it that make it enjoyable. Still wrapped in the grip of Freddy Krueger, this one has a wise-cracking killer cracking jokes throughout after each kill, a practice that in theory could grow old quickly but here is actually far more enjoyable than expected due to the high quality use of genuinely funny lines, the black humor ringing true quite often and has some extra enjoyment to the scene it's featured in. That, when added with the rather enjoyable main villain generates a lot of fun in places, and again here it's featured that makes for some fun times. As a slasher, this one has some plentiful moments that generally allow it a great time, from the suspenseful stalking scenes, with an ultra-creepy sequence in a house of mirrors as well as the sequence in the hospital waiting room being the big highlights, but it's got more than enough from the other areas to generate enough of a creepy air that it works nicely as a slasher. As well, the graphic deaths here are done nicely with a variety of different instruments to give it a fun flair as well as dishing out some brutal deaths to go along with it. Though it can grow tiresome after a while with its cheesier nature, it's a pretty funny and enjoyable effort.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Adult Language, Nudity, and an off-camera sex scene.