Dr. Giggles

Plot synopsis:
In the town of Moorehigh in 1957, the patients of Dr. Evan Rendell kept disappearing. After some investigation, the citizens of Moorehigh found that he and his son Evan Jr. (nicknamed "Dr. Giggles" for his hideous laugh), were ripping out patients' hearts—in an attempt to bring back the doctor's dead wife. The townspeople stone Dr. Rendell to death, but Evan Jr. disappeared.
Thirty-five years later, Giggles escapes from a mental asylum, killing everyone in his path. In Moorehigh, 19-year-old Jennifer Campbell, her boyfriend Max Anderson, and their friends are planning their spring break. Jennifer, upset that her father is dating again shortly after her mother's death, is further angered when she is diagnosed with a heart condition and is forced to wear a heart monitor to determine if she needs surgery. Meanwhile, Dr. Giggles breaks into his father's abandoned office and starts going through the doctor's old files, gathering a list of names. He begins to stalk and kill several of the town's residents, including Jennifer's friends.
Jennifer comes home from a party, and deciding that she's had enough of her heart monitor, dumps it in a fish tank. Jennifer's father finds her heart monitor and goes to look for her, leaving his girlfriend Tamara behind to also be killed by Giggles. Jennifer returns to the party and sees Max kissing another girl. Distraught, she runs into a house of mirrors. Giggles sees Jennifer and notices that she has the same heart condition as his mother and goes after her. He follows and kills the girl, but Jennifer sees him coming and manages to escape. Officers Magruder and Reitz find her and take her to the police station.
Giggles makes his way to Jennifer's house and attacks her father. Officer Magruder goes to investigate Jennifer's house and finds her father there, lying in a pool of blood. Giggles attacks and kills Magruder, but not before Magruder seriously wounds him in the side with a bullet. Reitz arrives soon after, finding his partner dead and Jennifer's father wounded but alive. Meanwhile, Giggles returns to his hideout, performing surgery on himself to remove the bullet. He then kidnaps Jennifer and tells her that he plans to replace her "broken" heart with one of those he took from the bodies of her friends. Reitz and Max arrive to save her. Max and Jennifer escape, but Reitz is killed when Giggles' hideout is destroyed.
Jennifer is taken to the hospital, where she is told that the traumatic events of the evening have damaged one of her heart valves, and she is going to need surgery to replace it. While she is being prepped, Dr. Giggles reappears, having survived the explosion, and is cutting a bloody path through the hospital staff to get to Jennifer. He chases her to a janitor's closet where she spills a bottle of cleaning fluid onto the floor and hits him with a pair of defibrillator paddles, electrocuting him. She finally kills him by stabbing him through the chest with two of his own instruments. Dr. Giggles then breaks the fourth wall, staring at the camera and asking, "Is there a doctor in the house?" before dying.
Recovering in the hospital, Jennifer is visited by Max and her also-recovering father.

Tags: revenge, murder, violence, flashback

Review:
A Surprise: 'Dr. Giggles" Is A Funny Guy. This was a surprisingly entertaining B-type film with a lot of good lines by "Dr. Giggles" (Larry Drake).
Dr Evan Rendell or Dr Giggles from the title wonderfully played by Larry Drake is,along with officer Joe Vickers(Bobby Ray Shafer)from "Psycho Cop" series,one of the funniest psycho killers ever created on film."Dr Giggles" is an enjoyable slasher film filled with gore and black humour.The film is well-directed and acted and is simply fun to watch.It's quite suspenseful at times,and some of the killings are rather unpleasant(like when he castrates one guy)and grotesque.Recommended for horror fans..
I expected it to be really lame, and boring, but was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually quite good.A mental patient who believes that he is a doctor escapes the psych- ward, and returns to wreak murderous havoc on the town that he escaped from as a child after the "townsfolk" stoned his demented physician father to death.Typical of the horror genre, there is the young, innocent heroine, who saves the day, and her not-so-innocent friends who aren't so lucky.What sets this film apart is that it is original and creative, considering it came out before the Scream flicks.
Holly Marie Combs is very good in this movie, and you actually care what happens to her character.Bottom Line: A fun, humorous, creepy film to watch..
Larry Drake,(Dr. Evan Rendell ),"Spun",'02, gave a great performance and looked more like your local butcher than the role of doctor.
Dr. Giggles is a movie which stars Larry Drake who plays a 42 year old psychopatic Doctor by the name of Doctor Evan Rendell.
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.
If you're expecting to gain something out of a movie then this probably isn't for you but if you're looking for a slightly comical flick with some scary instances this'll certainly be a good way to kill some time.
Its about This doctor who escapes this mental hospital to go back to his home town where his father was a doctor until the town killed him off but he goes back there to follow in his fathers footsteps and he starts killing people off and taking thier hearts out and he finds Jenny Campbell (Holly Marie Combs)who has a heart condition and needs her valve replaced and he starts stalking her and trying to perform heart surgery while her b/f (Glenn Quinn from the tv series Angel) and a local cop try to help her and catch him.
Now bringing his own style of justice to town, our mad, Evan Rendell (Drake) is about to cause havoc on many unsuspecting townsfolk, with some unique ways of killing, some of those old doctors sayings attached, a little altered for the amusement of the viewer, and for Drake's own self gratification.
When taken as a serious horror, it will fall down badly however, with very few scares, gore that simply cannot be believed, and few 'inventive' deaths considering the main protagonist is a wannabe surgeon!Other offerings such as 'The Dentist' benefit from a more serious plot and more threatening central character (not to mention tapping a general fear in most people!), but if Dr.Giggles is seen for what it is; a very black comedy with OTT gore to match, it's worth a look.
This tongue in cheek thriller stars Larry Drake who plays a mental patient (who thinks he's a doctor) that escapes a mental hospital and heads to the small town of Moorehigh,where his father was killed, to get revenge on the townspeople.
He kills many people in ghoulish and somewhat odd ways before finding out about Jennifer (played by the lovely Holly Marie Combs)who has a heart condition.
The characters one-liners are funny and the house of mirrors scene is scary.I really recommend this movie for fans of "Child's Play" and "Nightmare on Elm Street." Funny horror movie!.
I was worried it was going to be really bad and ide be dissapointed but i actaully really enjoyed it and if i didnt have it now i would go out of my way to get it and pay upt to $10 dollars for it, go take a look if u like old cheesy horror movies, if u want a deep and well though plot that keeps you guessing the whole way then stay away from this and see identity its awesome :).
this is a great horror movie Larry Drake steals the show but everyone puts in good performances like Darin Heames who played Stu and unfortunitly is killed of soon but the movie is about a doctors son who escapes from a looney bin and escapes killing workers.
Dr. Giggles (1992) ** (out of 4) The psychopath Dr. Giggles (Larry Drake) escapes from a mental hospital and heads towards his hometown where years earlier the town people killed his father.
We also have Giggles taking a few points from Freddy as he also goes for the various one-liners but most of them are pretty stupid but at the same time some of them are the type of jokes you'd expect to hear from an unfunny doctor.
He even stalks a beautiful girl who has a weak heart as he wants her for a sick and twisted experiment he's gonna conduct.Gory, funny and well made splatter slasher horror comedy flick from Dark Horse Comics production who gave us the films like "The Mask", "Sin City" and "Hellboy 1 & 2".
I also like the pitch black humor presented in this movie to give it a more different flavor then the usual slasher pic just like "Scream" did 5 years later.Fans of slasher, horror comedies and splatter should seek out this cult gem that is one of the most overlooked horror gems of the 90's.Also recommended: "Halloween Saga plus Rob Zombie's Halloween", "Scream Trilogy", "Inside", "The Untold Story", "American Psycho", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Saw Series", "My Bloody Valentine (1981 and 3D 2009)", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects", "Maniac (1980)", "The Burning", "The Prowler", "Friday The 13th Saga plus 2009 version", "A Nightmare on Elm Street Saga", "Freddy vs.
Larry Drake is perfect in the lead role but he's the only one who seems to be doing much acting here - the rest of the movie is dedicated solely to coming up with new (and often disturbing) ways to dispatch nubile teenagers, with the movie finishing its ninety-minute running time with a striking body count.
Nevertheless there's a weirdness that works here: Borrowing its structure from 1978's "Halloween" and its first sequel, "Dr. Giggles" often plays like a semi-serious parody of its own genre, and while director Manny Coto doesn't manage to solidify his own thesis he nevertheless manages to deliver a medium slasher entry that has enough stand-out moments to make it worth a shot for horror fans..
Why can't we have more movies where every single line is a cliche (literally, "the Doctor is In!") or a pun (take your pick) and is acted by one or those "oh THAT guy!" actors -Larry Drake (you know, from Darkman?) and features so many many grisly kills involving all manner of medical equipment and so on?Well...
It may have some very typical problems but this is made up for in other areas.The movie title is about an insane doctor (Larry Drake) who enjoys performing malpractice on live patients and finds it comical, thus giving us his nickname Dr. Giggles.
there are not too many good things about this horror movie.one good thing is the performance of Larry drake as the psycho.he really puts his heart into the performance.you can tell he really has fun with the role.the only other good thing is that in the last 25 minutes or so,the movie starts to get good.the last 15 minutes in particular are really good,and there is one scene near the end which is priceless.unfortunately the first 70+ minutes are pretty lame.there really aren't enough positives are enough to make the movie worth watching.that's my opinion.
If so, I recommend making an appointment with Dr. Giggles, an enjoyable slice of early-90s comedy/horror silliness that delivers a controlled dose of fun that'll have you back on your feet, right as rain in no time.Larry Drake plays escaped lunatic Doctor Evan Rendell, nicknamed Dr. Giggles because of his incessant high-pitched laugh.
Returning to his childhood home, where his equally loopy father was stoned to death by locals for removing the hearts of several unwilling patients (in an bid to find a suitable replacement for his wife's dodgy ticker), Rendell sets about resuming his father's work.With a villain that spouts numerous corny one-liners whilst butchering his victims, an ageing policeman hiding a life-long secret, and the action taking place in such clichéd locales as a funfair, a lunatic asylum, and a deserted old house, this film mercilessly lampoons the slasher genre, taking the craziness to the next degree, including death via thermometer, giant sticking plaster, blood pressure gauge and stomach pump.Director Manny Coto keeps things moving at a brisk pace and his film looks marvellous throughout, with great use of vibrant colours and innovative use of camera placement.
Doug, Cliff De Young and Michelle Johnson—deliver equally measured performances, their seriousness in the face of such absurdity being most admirable.The other stars of the film are the excellent effects by the KNB group: although several of the murders are free of gore, the scenes that do get messy are satisfyingly graphic, with the most memorable moment being the 'rebirth' of the young Evan from the corpse of his mother, the child having been sewn inside her body as a means of escape!
When I first rented this movie I expected it to be another slasher movie like so many others.However while I was watching I realized it couldn't be a slasher movie because of one thing...it had a plot.The movie is very cool we get tons of very graphic murders and some funny one liners at each one.The film uses tons of gore and is very funny.The acting is pretty good which is another reason it couldn't be a slasher movie.The story line is really cool and believable and builds up a lot of suspense towards the end.The music is also very good.If your looking for a gory and funny horror movie rent this one today!!!.
There is no scary stuff, no intelligent plot, nothing that really horrifies but you can see this guy killing teenagers with one-liners to it.Good things with this movie is a) some of the actors is good (Larry Drake in the lead role is pretty good) b) it is Brian Eno that has made the sound.
The script was great (especially the doc's one-liners were hilarious), the directing was magnificent, the art direction was great (especially the scenes in the Doc's house and basement), Larry Drake did a great job, and (last, but not least) an awesome music score by composer Brian May that pays tribute to classic B&W horror films.The main titles sequence was creative and well done.
Loaded with clichés and "can see it coming a mile away" blood and guts, Dr. Giggles is a complete waste of time.Sure, the creators may have wanted to do "a genre piece", but this is the same rehashed garbage, a date movie for the stereotypical guy who laughs at the violence on screen and the girl who squeals and clings to her boyfriend.
Here is a movie who's use of graffiti on set walls is even obnoxious, self-aware and -- in the eyes of the filmmakers -- as equally worthy of the viewer's attention as what the main characters have to say.It's a great concept for a film: Nutzo sick maniac doctor escapes from the local sanatorium and promptly sets up a home practice & starts killing people in various inventive ways.
The town that he has decided to take his revenge on is the same town that caught and murdered his doctor father several years ago.The lead role goes to Larry Drake, who may look like a doctor; but doesn't manage to be at all believable in his irritating giggling role.
This movie sucked and Holly Marie Combs well I'm a big fan of her's and I was like why would you do this movie.it sucked really really badly Me and my sister always make fun of it.watch it if you want something to mock but don't watch it if your looking for a good movie then don't watch this one.Also you can tell it's a bad movie cause it's only on t.v. and no movie store has it or at least the ones i've been to don't have it.This is such a bad movie that your going to laugh your head off at it and it's supposed to be a scary movie which of course it's not even close to scary.One more thing if anything this movie might make you scared of doctors for a while cause you don't want them to laugh or something at least that's what happened to me..
(** out of *****)Larry Drake (from "Darkman") plays the title character -- the deranged, vengeful son of a town doctor who was lynched for performing unorthodox open-heart surgery on unwilling patients years ago.
Holly Marie Combs (from the TV show "Charmed") plays the young heroine, who gets on the doc's good side by having heart problems.Lowlight:  Dr. Giggles, as a boy, sneaks out of his house while his father is being lynched by hiding inside of his mother's sewn-up corpse, and, in a grisly flashback, he slices his way out with a scalpel.
He then turns his attention to Jennifer's family, killing Tamara and attacking Tom. Two police officers, (Keith Diamond) (Richard Bradford) on the case, discover Rendell's operation for removing the hearts of his victims after their dead and race to his house to stop him before he harms the abducted Jennifer and her boyfriend.The Good News: In the late 80s, horror movies were becoming increasingly more formulaic and almost no originality was used in creating them.
When he discovers that a potential victim, Jennifer Campbell (Holly Marie Combs of 'Charmed'), has a heart condition, he takes pity on her, and because he does consider himself a doctor, changes the theme of his murder spree to supposedly help her out.Nicely shot (by Robert Draper) and effectively paced, "Dr. Giggles" (so named because of Evan Jr.'s nervous habit) makes the most out of its medical theme with its merry antagonist utilizing all sorts of doctors' tools to off his mostly unsympathetic, typical slasher movie type victims.
Never before have I ever seen or heard of a horror-comedy film whose main villain is an insane doctor who wants to preform open heart surgery on a girl so that he can finish where his father had started.
It's unusual for two reasons, for one it is hard to make that subject both scary and funny at the same time, and two,it's humor comes mainly from his insanity (usually horror-comedies get their humor from the theme of family values.) It is not what you expect it to be at all, looking at the cover, it looks like your average crappy B-movie, but it is actually filled with clever dialogue, decent acting (with a few exceptions), and a very well done job on the presentation of the film (with it's direction, photography, and editing.)The only problem I had was the ending.
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 town folk a heart transplant....Let's be honest, this is a silly movie full of bad acting and worse dialogue from the supporting actors, but thanks to Larry Drake and some every cheesy one liners, this is an above average slasher movie.The titular character walks around a town in a Doctors outfit, pulls out a tool, and kills someone whilst saying a line connecting with the said tool.It's cheap and cheerful stuff, harking back to the slasher movies of the eighties that no one really remembers (Sleepaway camp, The Burning)but with a nineties twist.The teens in this are nothing out of the ordinary, which all have traits which will see them get there demise.It's all by the numbers stuff, and most will not like the film or narrative, but it has some kooky charm to its story.Worth watching for Drake and the one liners..
I watched the movie in full the next time it airedand honestly, I wasn't sure if I should've been completely horrified or entirely amused.Dr. Evan Rendell (Larry Drake) is a seriously disturbed mental patient who intends to exact revenge on the town that 'murdered' his doctor father.
They had killed the doctor, but never found his son.Years later, in an institution for the mentally insane, a patient known only as Dr. Giggles escapes, killing many doctors along the way.He flees back to his hometown to avenge his fathers death with the help of his "doctored" medical tools.This movie also features Holly Marie Combs as Jennifer Cambell, a typical teen with a heart condition, who quickly attracts the attention of the not-so-good doctor.
The acting is alright, Larry Drake stands-out as the crazy Dr. Giggles who has an unnerving laugh & Holly Marie Combs is very pretty while Doug E.
Doug has a small role.Dr. Giggles is a fun little comedy horror slasher that plays on the genre clichés & conventions & has fun with them but to be honest apart from some amusing one-liners & the odd bit of gore there's not that much else here to get that excited about.