10 Horror Movie Characters Who Got Advice From THE WORST PLACE POSSIBLE
6. Visiting The Wrong Dentist - The Dentist
If you need an example of how lame the slasher subgenre eventually became, you need look no further than The Dentist.
Having been popularised by Black Christmas and Halloween in the 1970s, the slasher become the dominant go-to choice for so many filmmakers as the '70s rolled into the '80s and then the '90s. Of course, the slasher model was done to death, with oversaturation and staggering drops in quality taking over this corner of horror.
1996 is a pivotal year in slasher history and in horror, period, with that being the year that Wes Craven's Scream poked fun at tired tropes and reinvented the game. But that same year also gave us Brian Yuzna's god-awful The Dentist.
Very much playing the same lame notes of the slashers that had preceded it, The Dentist centres on a deranged dentist who brutally takes out his anger on his unsuspecting patients.
Those poor casualties had only gone to Dr. Alan Feinstone for dental advice, but instead were confronted by an insane dentist who went to extreme excesses in his methods - ranging from unnecessary teeth removal, to stealing underwear, to choking a patient, to forcefully taking off braces, to lethal injections and all-out murder!