The Dentist
The Dentist is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, and Charles Finch.[2] Dr. Alan Feinstone is a Los Angeles dentist who, despite his professional success, quietly suffers from extreme obsessive–compulsive disorder and is preoccupied with cleanliness and perfection.At his dental practice, Alan's first appointment goes poorly when he hallucinates a child patient having rotten teeth and accidentally stabs him.As Detective Gibbs investigates the death of Paula's dog, Alan sees his second patient, April Reign, a beauty queen.Alan ends the day early and sends his staff and patients home, including Sarah, a teenager who wants her braces removed.At the police station, Detective Sunshine discovers that the bullet pulled from Paula's dog only matches one gun in the area: Alan's.IRS agent Marvin Goldblum, using Alan's tax problems as leverage, extorts a free dental exam and a payout.[5] Allmovie called it a subpar horror-comedy about dental anxiety that "adds nothing new to the mix besides over-the-top images of mouths being desecrated and queasy allusions to the alleged filthiness of oral sex".[6] TV Guide rated it 2 out of 4 stars and wrote, "In its state of Grand Guignol-overkill, this offbeat chiller is bound to offend those viewers who wish the offspring of Sam Raimi and Stuart Gordon would learn the use of filmmaking restraint.