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Dr. Giggles (1992)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 11

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Release Date: Oct 23, 1992 Wide

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Jumping fairly late on the slasher-movie bandwagon, this stylish but hollow effort from director Manny Coto stars L.A. Law's Larry Drake as the psychopathic Evan Rendell, who fancies himself a misunderstood medical genius. In an inventive opening scene, Rendell performs a bit of impromptu surgery on his keepers at the asylum (who had given him the title nickname due to his fits of nervous laughter) and escapes to his hometown to set up his "practice." This medical mania seems to run in the

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Horror

Directed By: Manny Coto

In Theaters: Oct 23, 1992 Wide

On DVD: Sep 22, 1998

MCA Universal Home Video

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Cast

Larry Drake
Dr. Evan Rendell
Holly Marie Combs
Jennifer Campbell
Cliff De Young
Tom Campbell
Glenn Quinn
Max Anderson
Keith Diamond
Officer Joe Rietz
Richard Bradford
Officer Hank Magruder
Michelle Johnson
Tamara
John Vickery
Dr. Chamberlain
Nancy Fish
Elaine Henderson
Sara Melson
Coreen
Zoe Trilling
Normi
Darin Heames
Stu
Deborah Tucker
Dianne
Doug E. Doug
Trotter
Denise Barnes
Leigh
Troy Barron
Young Magruder
Jerry Counsil
1st Surgeon
Patrick Cronin
Sheriff Harper
Pieter Dawson
Doctor
Mario de Priest
1st Orderly
Marianne Doherty
O.R. Nurse
Russ Fast
Anesthesiologist
William Hunt
Evan's Father
Britt Magnuson
1st Nurse
Nicholas Mastrandea
Young Evan
Joshua Nielsen
Danny Atchley
Danny Perkin
Specks
William Earl Ray
Psychiatrist
Todd Tolces
1st Security Guard
Mark C. Vincent
2nd Surgeon
Annie Wanberg
2nd Nurse
Karen Rea

Critic Reviews for Dr. Giggles

All Critics (18) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (12) | DVD (2)

...a gross, boring, workaday slasher film with minor ambitions to comedy. (Blu-ray Horror Double Feature)

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

It attempts some gallows humor but is largely imitative, shamelessly ripping off every slasher film that went before it.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Dopey, absurd fun...

March 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The numbing familiarity of everything in the film just makes the cartoonish bits look ridiculous.

July 30, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

more one liners than schwarzenegger could dream off

June 14, 2006 Comment

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

Exposes the darker side of Benny from L.A. Law.

July 5, 2004 Comment

Martin Scribbs

Low IQ Canadian Source: Low IQ Canadian

More proof that the early nineties were horror's low-point.

October 23, 2003 Comment

Alex Sandell

Juicy Cerebellum

Larry Drake was born to play a slasher villain!

July 30, 2003 Comment

Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Good potential with the crazy doctor, but it turns into just another slasher movie. The cop breaking up the party is the best scene.

July 14, 2003 Comment

Fred Topel

About.com

Amusingly bad horror flick

August 26, 2002 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The slasher stuff isn't half bad, but you have to suffer through comedy material that feels like glass in your brain.

July 26, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

A template for how to make a bad horror film.

May 26, 2002 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

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Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff DeYoung 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.

August 18, 2009

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When I saw this as a kid, boy was I scared out of my wits! lol I would like to watch it again someday. I'll give it 3 stars for scaring me.

August 10, 2009

Nani V

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