one of my absolute favorites!

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Blistering performances.

I was just surfing the web and found this movie and I soon rented it on my pad for the weekend. I finished it today, and I thought "Oh, my God!" In a GOOD way! What I MAINLY liked about this movie is the actual storyline. I prefer a Mystery/Horror movie to a Horror/Horror movie.It actually DID convince me to be scared of my dentist, but I laughed at myself after that. I did have a book with my while I watched it so that I could cover up any shots that were TOO gore. By gore, I mean close-ups of bloody mouths, such as when Dr. Feinstone stabs Jodi in the gum and blood sprays everywhere, and we see Brooke with her tongue cut out. AND when he 'tortures' Mr. Goldblum. And in one scene, Dr. Feinstone strangles Jessica to death and gave Karan a needle, and the air bubble travels to her brain and kills her. I had to cover the screen for THAT, too. There's also a lot of swearing in this movie, "Whore" is used loads, so is "Shit" and "Fucking". Well, Sarah reminds me of myself, the fact that she had her braces off. I got MINE off a month ago and NOW a have a plate.Overall, FOR CHILDREN? Almost CERTAINLY not. The VERY STRONG gore and violent scenes are VERY LIKELY to scare children and possibly some teenagers.

If you ever plan on visiting the dentist again, I recommend not watching this movie.Corbin Bernsen provides an engaging, enjoyable portrayal of Dr. Allen Feinstone. If you're into poorly done horror comedies in the likes of Dusk until Dawn 2, this film could be for you.As a dentist myself, I work with patients daily to allay their dental fears. A few of my extremely fearful patients took years to become relatively comfortable at my practice. Only through compassionate dental care was I able to slowly ease these patients into healthy dental practices.If any of dental fear patients saw this film, it would set back their progress by years.

Mediocre horror movie that tries to make one chuckle and make you cringe at the same time. Unfortunately, it made me cringe a couple of times, but not really chuckle as the humor falls flat for the most part. The movie is not really scary either, the only thing about this movie that really made me cringe was the teeth pulling stuff in it, and that would make me cringe in a documentary too. However, it passed the time and it had a somewhat good acting by Corbin Berson as the dentist who in the blink of an eye snaps and starts out just doing rather inappropriate things like getting fresh with a patient who is under gas, but soon turns to murder and graphic teeth pulling as he goes further and further down the path of madness. People of course begin to suspect his bad behavior, but they are usually one step behind the crazed dentist. If they had not tried so hard to interject humor into this one and done a few more gruesome things this one may have scored more points with me. Still, I think as gruesome as tooth pulling is, I think there is just to limited a scope for a movie so it gets stretched thin and unnecessary plot points are introduced. Sadly, they thought this concept could be stretched into another movie and thus the Dentist II would be born.

If you remember the cringing dentistry scene in Marathon Man, then be prepared for the same disturbing torture, only on a more frequent and visual scale. Basically Dr. Alan Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) is a renowned dentist with a big house and beautiful wife Brooke (Linda Hoffman), but his world and sanity is to be destroyed when he sees his wife having an affair with their pool cleaner. So when he gets back to work he begins a bout of dental torture, first one or two unintentionally because of paranoia, but he definitely means it soon enough. Of course the one person he feels should pay the most is Brooke, and on the night of their anniversary, she gets all her teeth removed and tongue cut out. So Feinstone continues his routine, and meanwhile Detective Gibbs (Dawn of the Dead's Ken Foree) with Detective Sunshine (Tony Noakes) are getting suspicious of recent activities in the Doctor's area, and it is only when they find bloody evidence that they are out to catch him. Feinstone realises he is now a wanted man, and young Sarah (Virginya Keehne), recently having her braces removed by him (not in the bad way) is trying to escape, until eventually he is caught and put in an institute. Also starring Molly Hagan as Jessica, Patty Toy as Karen, Jan Hoag as Candy, Christa Sauls as April Reign, The Terminator's Earl Boen as Marvin Goldblum, Michael Stadvec as Matt and Mark Ruffalo as Steve Landers. There may be a little cheesiness, i.e. dialogue, but Bernsen is on top form as the dentist over the edge, with teeth getting pulled without numbing, drilled to nothing and jaws ripped open, often along to classical operatic music very reminiscent to real dentist appointment, the gore is both cringing and at times funny. It is almost like an Evil Dead cheeky horror, but more than that it is one of those horror films that makes you think twice about things that would otherwise by mundane, your next dentist's appointment will obviously be even more uncomfortable. Good!