The Dentist 2
Tags: violence, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, sadist

Plot synopsis:
Dr. Alan Feinstone is in the maximum security mental hospital he was sentenced to at the end of the first film. While talking to the facility's psychiatrist, he remembers the murders he committed in his own mind, while convincing the doctor that it was another man who did those things. His remorseful story distracts her from seeing him pull a sharpened tool that he stitched into his own leg, and he uses her as a hostage to escape the hospital. Alan's wife Brooke is alive despite her missing tongue and inability to speak (She has since had new dental implants put in to replace all the teeth that Alan pulled out in the first film). She hires an investigator to find out where Alan has escaped to, believing that he had been putting away money before he went crazy. Brooke has in her possession some postcards that Alan had left behind, and she believes he is in one of those places.
Alan winds up in the small town of Paradise, Missouri, pretending that he had grown upset at life in the big city. He uses a previously established false identity of Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Caine, and has a bank account where he had been sending the money he skimmed off from his practice to hide from the IRS. The bank officer Mr. Wilkes introduces Alan to his niece Jamie, hoping that she can rent out her small cottage for "Larry" to live in so she could collect money from it.
Jamie, who physically resembles Brooke, becomes a target of Alan’s affections. When he has problems with a cap on one of his teeth, Alan visits the inept town dentist, Dr. Burns, whom he takes an instant disliking to. Alan threatens Dr. Burns with a golf club, causing him to accidentally fall down the stairs to his death. Mr. Wilkes convinces Alan that he should take over as the new dentist for Paradise; Alan soon resumes his murderous ways with a passing tourist (Clint Howard) who accidentally recognizes him from Los Angeles.
As the private detective tracks Alan down to Paradise, Alan learns that Jamie has an admirer named Robbie, who also is the drywall contractor hired to finish his new office. Alan's jealousy causes him to ruin a romantic dinner when it is interrupted by a call from Robbie on her answering machine, despite Jamie's insistence that she only thinks of Robbie as a friend from the third grade. Meanwhile, Bev, a teller at the bank, has doubts about "Larry" and finds out his real identity while researching on the computer.
Bev sets up an appointment to tell him she knows the truth, but when she asks too many questions he realizes that she knows something. He goes behind her and sedates her with nitrous oxide. She finds herself duct taped to the dental chair and cries and begs him to let her go. He puts a mouth clamp in her mouth to keep it open and drills her bottom-right molar tooth to the raw nerve as a "lie detector" to find out who else she has told. If she lied he would take a dental hook and painfully wiggle the tooth he drilled. Robbie comes to install some more drywall, and after Bev screams Robbie goes to check on her. Alan and Robbie get into a fight. Alan kills Robbie with a hatchet and turns back to Bev and re-tapes her to the dental chair. He takes a pair of dental pliers and plays a game of "truth or tooth". He asks her what did she tell Jeremy about Washington but he doesn't believe her then pulls out her left front tooth, then he asks her what she did tell Jamie. He then pulls her left incisor tooth out. Before finishing her off Alan painfully extracts all of her teeth.
Later that night Alan begins to have his obsessive-compulsive visions of germs and decay again after seeing his blood-stained uniform. Suddenly Brooke appears, and begins to seduce him into one of his chairs; just before she can cut his tongue off with a pair of scissors, Jamie knocks her out with an overhead lamp. However, as Jamie is calling the police about Brooke, she spots the bloody hatchet, and opens a closet door to find Robbie's and Bev's maimed corpses.
Alan turns on Jamie and a fight ensues, with him chasing her to an upstairs bathroom and finally overpowering her. He takes her to an unfinished room in the office, which in his mind is spotless, germ-free and pure white, with opera music playing, and picks up an electric drill (which in his mind is a dental drill) and tries to drill her teeth. Jamie escapes and hides, until Brooke has revived and she and Jamie trap Alan in a hallway. Brooke lunges to stab him with a pair of scissors, but Jamie inadvertently hits her over the head with a 2x4, killing her.
Alan finds Jamie hiding behind some drywall, and after banter between the two, Jamie fires a nail gun repeatedly and hits him with numerous nails. Stunned, Alan walks downstairs into the midst of a surprise welcome party being given to him by the people of Paradise. Alan calmly exits out the front door, leaving the townpeople shocked and Jamie to recover herself from what just happened. Alan drives off into the night with numerous nails embedded in his head and shoulders. He begins to pull them out, using one as a toothpick for his cap which was lost in his fights with Jamie and Brooke, and maniacally laughs repeatedly.

Review: Debuting on HBO like the first surprise, this is a pretty good sequel that brings that lunatic dentist (Corbin Bernsen) back in business after escaping a mental hospital and hiding in a quiet town, where he murders the dentist around the town because the guy did a poor job at filling one of his teeth in.
Corbin Bernsen is great as the dentist and delivers a lot of good lines.
Between the first and second half, the pace moved a bit slow, but if you liked the first one and can take watching close-ups of teeth being either drilled or yanked out, you should enjoy this strange, campy film..
In 1996 we were introduced to our psychotic dentist played by Corbin Bernsen, a man drove insane by the stresses of his job and catching his wife blowing the pool boy.Two years later he breaks free from the asylum, switches state, changes his name and starts all over again.But before you know it his inner darkside is unleashed and he torments his victims in the way that only he can.This is a slight improvement on the first but still not exactly impressive stuff.
I mean seriously, it's pretty bad.Harmless enough watch for fans of the original but as a franchise its hardly worth the effort especially as part 3 was cancelled.The Good: Direct sequel The Bad: Not the easiest of viewing Things I Learnt From This Movie: I may never go to the dentist again.
Corbin Bernsen returns as the dentist who snapped when his wife had an affair and killed a bunch of people in gruesome fashion.
Our "hero" manages to escape prison and resume life as a dentist in a quiet, unsuspecting suburban town with a police force that makes a soap opera cop look smart.The cast has few notables beyond Bernsen, but his over-the-top performance takes this film to the mediocre yet very bloody and gory heights it aimed at.
What we get is what we expect: to be thrilled, chilled, repulsed, and petrified by the mixture of murder, mayhem, and dental equipment.That we laugh and cheer when the hapless innocents are so deliciously dispatched in films like this is something for the psychs to wonder about, but until they figure it out, I'll be hooting and hollering right along with them.If it didn't have tons of killing and gallons of blood, it would be good clean fun, but instead this movie is just good fun.
Good, gory fun.Enjoy when you have nothing better to do and want to see some torture and killing on screen..
In this sequel to the surprisingly enjoyable 1996 original, Dr. Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) escapes from a mental institution and heads to small town named Paradise.
As in the original, there are some shocking, gory and repulsive scenes of dental torture that should please gore fans but, alas, the movie's pacing is so slow that it becomes a chore to watch.
The movie also suffers from multiple moments of implausibility, particularly at the very end where the film becomes so abstract and bizarre that one is left to question what was originally established; this is not a good thing.
Without Bernsen's exceptional ability at bringing to life the character of Dr. Feinstone/Caine I'd have to believe that this movie would come off as far worse than it is.
At some points it was almost painful to watch and one wished that Feinstone dispatched his victims much quicker than he actually did.Despite a far more sadistic Feinstone character and some good effects and death scenes, 'The Dentist 2' was relatively dull and retained little of the charm that the original possessed.
For fans of 'The Dentist' (1996) this film is worth watching once, though I think that many will be disappointed.
Actually, I think this sequel is even slightly better than the original (a rare thing to happen in the horror genre).
Sure, there's nothing new about this film, but as I already told you: it's not worse than the first.Dr. Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) has escaped a mental hospital and continues his work in a small town called 'Paradise' after getting rid of the local dentist.
But soon his itchy drill finger starts to mutilate his patients in another series of disgustingly elaborate drill & kill scenes.Again, Corbin Bernsen does an excellent job as the psycho-dentist.
Yeah I know, I like watching bad movies, I think they're pretty funny, and when they have gore, I find it even better, because I love gore.
This film had, in the line of what bad movie lovers enjoy, some stupid one-liners, a psycho schizophreniac dentist, some quite sadistic acts of violence (against an idiot fat lady, and many other characters played by so-so actors), a weird and lame ending, a pretty stupid scenario, and some pretty gruesome sequences of dental torture.
This film is directed by Brian Yuzna, who also brought us "The Dentist", "Faust:Love of The Damned", "Return of the Living Dead 3", and "Progeny".
Corbin Bernsen is not that bad as the insane dentist, but the rest of the cast is pretty bad.
After escaping from a mental institution, Dr. Allen Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) moves on to the small Midwestern town of Paradise and becomes Dr. Lawrence Caine.
Unsuccessfully trying to fight off personal demons and homicidal thoughts, the deranged doctor finally snaps, kills the town's only dentist and takes over his business, which results in several gory murders.
Meanwhile his ex-wife Brooke (Linda Hoffman, returning from the original) is out for revenge.This direct-to-video sequel manages to out repulse the previous entry with lots of gory close-ups of teeth being yanked out or chewed up with a drill, needles going into skin, cut out tongues and more.
My friend had told me about this movie and how much it grossed her out with the opening scene, and I was in the mood for a good gory flick.
I actually in some sick way enjoyed this movie and I think other horror fans or a small fan base for the Dentist movies will like it.Basically, Dr. Feinstone is back in business, he has escaped from the mental institution and moves to "Paradise", a small town where people seem to enjoy each other's company and where they know everyone.
But when people start to find out more and his ex wife comes back, his madness goes too far and makes him go just mad.The effects are kind of lame, but honestly, it was a fun and gory movie to watch.
If you enjoyed the first Dentist, this is well worth checking out as it eclipses the original movie by far, upping the ante in terms of gore, madness and bonkers direction courtesy of splatter master Brian Yuzna.
"The Dentist 2" is almost as good as its predecessor.It is slickly made and features some truly grotesque scenes of dental torture.I agree that the scene when Corbin Bernsen tortures a woman is pretty vicious,but I wasn't offended or shocked.Even "Marathon Man" has more powerful torture scenes.Anyway I found this film entertaining and enjoyable,so it's a worthy addition to your horror collection.Recommended,if you like Brian Yuzna's stuff!.
Since the first one was an excellent and entertaining film, this sequel called The Dentist 2 (1998) was just solid.
The story is pretty good, it's about that the dentist falls in love with girl, girl finds another guy, the dentist takes a revenge.
Director Brian Yuzna has crafted a brilliantly inspired film in this sequel to the original The Dentist.
Corbin Bernsen's psycho dentist escapes from the mental hospital and hides out in a small town where he soon picks back up where he left off, namely torturing and killing people.
It has some real dental torture scenes in it, one better than in the first when they play "Truth or Tooth." Most of the original cast returns including Corbin Bernsen, as Dr. Feinstone.
Sick, sadistic and very cheesy in places, it is impossible not to wince at some of the scenes, but I thought it was OK, nowhere near as good as the original, but good fun all the same.The position of the ex wife is a bit weird, the only reasons for her being in the film was for the ending, a lot of rip offs from other movies, but some of the deaths are quite interesting.
This banal rehash of the original film brings pretty much nothing new to the equation, and the lack of bitter, demanding, dentist cadaver at the end of the blood bath just makes the entire piece a complete wash.
Better then the first one, though that's not saying much, it really riffs on what makes dentists so disturbing, namely the needles and hooks they stick in your mouth and wiggle around.The film takes forever to get there though.
It is a bit on the mean spirited side, but the film is so goofy that it's hard to get offended.There are also a lot of great "crazy guy freaking out" scenes, as the dentist looses his touch with reality, and the open ending is really funny and weird.Recommended, as long as you skip the first hour and get to the good stuff..
The Dentist 2 is not a good movie and you should make no effort in seeing it.
It's like a detective television show at times instead of a horror movie.The movie has graphic footage of oral decay and torture of the mouth and they are pretty shocking, but I would imagine you would need some kind of fetish of the mouth to get full enjoyment of it, because all it did was make me sick.
Something is missing.This movie features vase smashing, Clint Howard, really horrible deaths with torture included for some of them, a sex story in the middle, some nudity, really bad actors besides Corbin, a boring story and an ending that is just screaming to be made fun of, but I'll let you find that ridiculous ending out for yourself..
Even though Brian Yuzna's 1996 (almost) hit, The Dentist was a pretty good psychopath flick that excellently capitalised on the fact that dentistry is a much feared profession; what we really didn't need was a sequel.
This sequel reunites original star Corbin Bernsen with director Brian Yuzna.
Like the first film; his psychosis is triggered off by infidelity, and the only real thing that's different is the dentist's surgery.
The fact that he's just escaped from a mental hospital doesn't figure in the plot, as it's not long before Dr Feinstone is dishing out his own form of dental hygiene to the local population of a town called 'Paradise'.Corbin Bernsen was the main reason why Yuzna's original was any kind of success.
The scenes of gore are disgusting in that they mostly take place in the mouth, but the way that the film sets up these scenes doesn't work as well as it did in the original, as it's clear that the plot is only moving along so that the doctor can mess someone's mouth up.
Even this feels like it's just been thrown in to remind the audience of the better original, and although I found this film somewhat fun to watch on the whole; the fact that it's too much like the original never fails to bring it down.
I can't really find a good reason to recommend this flick, as even if you really liked the original, it still isn't really worth seeing..
The sequel falls well short of the first movie, with far few cool death scenes, mostly terrible acting, and a stupid plot.
That was quite normal because it was a relief in the disappointing decade of the 90's (disappointing for the genre of horror, that is) This film was original, funny in a black kind of way and very disturbing (because...it could happen, you know !!) So, it became a small success, especially in the rental market.
Dr Feinstone changes his name, travels to a small village (called Paradise...hmmm) falls in love with local blond babe, takes over the practice of the old dentist (this person died in a horrible "accident")and then he snaps again.
Corbin Bensen returns as the freaky dentist and also his wife from the first film still has her part.
The Dentist II seems like its basically the first one but with some new characters.I personally liked this one a lot better than the first one,for instance,this one is more of a twisted gore fest,while the first one was mostly based on grossing you out.What I liked most about this movie,even though it makes my mouth fell weird,is that the there's more torture in it than the first one,and plus,the torture scenes are way more twisted than in the first one.The acting in this movie was really great,it actually seemed like the psycho dentist was actually torturing people.The blood and gore effects are really good,but sometimes there's too much blood.The story runs along the lines of a classic psycho killer leaving town and getting a new identidy and eventually starts to kill again,and someone eventually knows who he really is.What I liked the most about Dentist II,is the ending,I don't know why but it just makes me laugh.
All and all The Dentist II is a pretty good movie.
This movie wasn't interesting enough to keep my attention, although the inevitable dental carnage is gruesome enough to remind you of brushing your teeth everyday, so your dentist won't need to pull the drill on you.
After The Dentist 1, Dr. Allen Fienstone gets away from the mental hospital, gets his ass on a town, changes it's name (Dr. Lawrence Caine) and gets insane killing his patients, the reallity is i can say nothing about this, he shoots good lines but at the mean time the movie is crappy.
However he starts to lose his mind again in fits of jealousy over Jamie whom he has fallen in love with, one of the banks employees Bev (Susanne Wright) becomes suspicious & a private eye (Ralph Martin) hired by his tongueless vengeful wife Brooke (Linda Hoffman) discovers his whereabouts as his cosy new existence is threatened & begins to fall apart...Directed by Brian Yuzna The Dentist 2 plays a lot like the original.
Again like the original anyone who is afraid of going to the dentist may want to give this film a miss as it features some cool, but maybe disturbing to some, dental torture scenes as Dr. Feinstone is a man who enjoys his job...
The character's are well developed & fleshed out which is unusual in a low budget horror such as this & I have to give it credit for being different & making an effort.Director Yuzna again delights in forcing the viewer to witness all sorts of dental torture & it's pretty strong stuff, scenes of plaque removers sticking into people's gums, dentist's drills destroying teeth & gums, exposed nerves, cut off tongues, a dream sequence which features a mouth full of crawling cockroaches, teeth mercilessly being pulled out, a hammer in someone's head, a needle stuck in someone's ear & a nasty torture scene when Bev really gets it...With a budget of about $1,800,000 The Dentist 2 is a very well made film throughout.
The special effects are good & the acting is too with Bernsen really getting into the spirit of things, the now silent Linda Hoffman returns & she's still a bit of a babe.The Dentist 2 is a worthy sequel & a good film although I couldn't help but think it was very similar to the original, which in itself isn't a particularly bad thing.
This one dentist I used to go to, he thought it would be a good idea to put video games in his lobby, like that's gonna make everything better or change the fact that some guy is gonna be sticking a drill into my jaw in ten minutes.
'The Dentist' was pretty much a series of (okay and better) bloody scenes, but in this one Yuzna tries to build things up more, more like a thriller (although it starts out with a pretty nasty drill scene!).
Our favorite dentist (Corbin Bernsen) escapes from the loony bin and sets up shop in a small town.
It isn't long before he is drilling again, since he is possessed by the demon dentist.He is in love with Jaime (Jillian McWhirter ), and that green-eyed monster rares it's ugly head again.Bev (Susanne Wright) starts snooping around like they do in all small town, and the doc's game of "Truth or Tooth" will scare you from the dentist forever.Brooke (Linda Hoffman), his ex, shows up for revenge, but it is Jaime that nails him good.
A Pretty Good Sequel, But I Don't Like The Ending..
(*May Contain Spoilers*) The Dentist 2 was an overall good and worthy sequel,but the one thing that bugged me was the ending.
If you are a fan of the original, or just like a good horror film, I recommend this.
"The Dentist II: Brace Yourself" is a lot better than it should've been, but it's not without some problems.**SPOILERS**Breaking out of the insane asylum, Dr. Alan Feinstone, (Corbin Bernsen) changes his name, moves to a small town and gets a job with Jeremy Wilkes, (Jim Doucette) an old friend.
The film plays on everybody's fear of the dentist quite effectively, and the dental torture scenes play out with a large amount of dread.
The movie also has some other great gore despite the dental torture, and there is some nice deaths.
There's the revenge story from the first one, the new town dentist angle, the secrecy and then the different love angles that come into play, and it's quite taxing that a little sequel has that many plots to keep track of.
Basically Dr. Alan Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen), the dentist gone over the edge from the previous film, has escaped from the mental hospital, and under the name Dr. Lawrence Caine he has gone to the quiet Midwestern town, Paradise, Missouri.