H!TITDS - Dr. Giggles (1992)
Town's got a doctor and his name is Rendell. Stay away from his house because he's the doctor from hell. He chopped up his patients, every last one, and he cut out their hearts purely for thought.
Hello and welcome to Hello This is the Doomed Show. I am Richard. I am Brad. Folks, we are using our Google...
but we're using our giggle glass because we're talking about Dr. Giggles. Dr. Giggles, 1992. Yes, sir. 1992, directed by...
Good old Manny Coto, who you were telling me he directed some, is he director or writer of Star Trek?
Both. He was the showrunner for the last season of Star Trek Enterprise. He was executive producer of four seasons of 24. Wow. He was an executive producer and writer for the fifth season of Showtime television.
series dexter nice apparently according to him what got him the gig on dr giggles was not his first horror film called playroom which i'm intrigued by
But he got it because of an episode of Tales from the Crypt that apparently was very well received called Morning Mess. Morning Mess. And he did a...
an episode of monsters even before that, which I mean, can you even get monsters on DVD or Blu-ray? Um, that's a good question. Hopefully it's a better than that. Tales from the.
dark side dvd that's an abomination oh yeah and they're better than uh the friday the 13th the series blu-rays oh yes i've heard that i've heard i've seen a rip garbage
Well, it's a rip on disc anyway. You can get Monsters, Inc. in DVD. That's probably different. That's probably different. I think it was different.
I don't believe Disney was involved or Pixar or the other, whatever. The other Pixar, the other, other Pixar. Yeah. The people that make the animated movies that aren't Disney. I like the co-writer.
on this. His name is Graham Whiffler. Mm-hmm. Whiff. That's a... His IMDb picture is literally the greatest thing I've ever seen.
He's very sad, and he's got on a medieval times crown. Oh, jeez. And it looks like it was taken in the early 2000s. I was like, wait, did you work on, like...
the cable guy or something. Why are you wearing that? Wow. Oh my God. Uh, but yes, um, we are going to spoil Dr. Giggles. So if you haven't seen it, go watch it.
Gonna love it. Maybe. And I'm gonna drop the freaking TV spot for it right here because it's a tastefully done beautiful 30 seconds. Let's hear it. Boom.
A secret no one revealed. Why haven't you told anyone? It's 1957, the night after they found all the bodies. A legend they thought was dead.
This patient is 193. Nobody knows this real IT. Very dangerous. A nightmare that will not end. No! The doctor is in.
Dr. Giggles. How about a free examination? Rated R. Starts Friday, October 23rd at theaters everywhere. Okay, that was the...
That was the TV spot here. And I have acquired a JPEG image of the VHS tape. And I'm going to read the beautiful plot synopsis on the back. Alrighty.
Two-time Emmy Award winner Larry Drake stars as a diabolical doctor with a sharp wit and even sharper scalpel in this horrific tongue-in-cheek thriller.
It's been 35 years since the small town of Moor High discovered why Dr. Rendell kept losing his patients. He was ripping their hearts out in a twisted attempt to save his ailing wife.
The townspeople stoned Rendell to death, but they never found the young son with the hideous giggle who helped his deranged father perform the operations. Let me speed this up a little bit.
Now over three decks later, Dr. Randall's son returns to gain revenge on more High's residents and he's not shy about making house calls. That's it. That's it. That's all. The taglines for this movie.
We got some good ones. And then we have one that is a little too good. Sorry, the doctor is in. Sane. I like that one.
The doctor is out of his mind. That's my favorite. I love it. A new prescription for terror. Okay.
And here's the one. I know, Brad, you judge this one harshly for me. Okay. If you're from more high and you get sick, fall on your knees and pray you die quick.
Utter garbage. It's bullshit. No one, no one put that on a poster. No fucking way. I looked like yesterday when I Googled it.
I was looking at pictures to share to Facebook for watching that. Maybe I did see a poster that said that. I will believe it when I see it.
Before we jump into this plot, we're going to talk about some of the key characters here. First up, of course, the mighty Larry Drake from Darkman, famously from Darkman. We just rewatched that.
For the first time since... I don't even remember when. It had been well over 20 years since I'd watched Darkman. I have not seen Darkman. I've seen it with Elizabeth.
I haven't seen it. That could be any time in the last 17 years. Sure. It was a miracle. I absolutely loved it. It was one of those movies I watched way too many times as a kid, so I was good.
for like 20 years. Now I'm happy to rewatch it. I was ill that it was a superhero movie that didn't have somebody I cared about in it at the time. Like Spider-Man or something. I didn't have any affinity.
Yeah. Towards Darkman. It's an excellent film. I have since gone back, obviously, like I said, and watched it when I was wrong. You grew into it. I did. Oh, I was thinking about that, too.
things that we've been talking about about like used to we had to have all the new releases and now we don't yeah and used to it was important this or that
As a side note, if you go to the Dr. Giggles Wikipedia page, you will see a poster that says, if you're from Morha and you get sick, fall on your knees and pray you die quick.
A new prescription for terror, Dr. Beagles. Oh, that's amazing. I take it back. Somebody put it on a poster somewhere. Yeah. Like if somebody listed all of the Freddy rhyme.
I'll punish her. 1809. Freddy's gonna kill ya. Check your time. I don't know. Our heroine is named...
Jennifer Campbell, and she's played by Holly Marie Combs. Holly Marie Combs. I was so excited to see her in this. She is like, I think she's three foot two.
And I think she weighs about 14 pounds. I think a stiff wind would send her far away. I did some quick math, and I think she was 18. Okay. So you've actually got a teenager playing a teenager.
Hey, good on her. Good on her. But yeah, I was looking at her career, and it's like stuff I know of, but I... Picket Fences was...
Really, we're into Charmed. And Pretty Little Liars. She was on 86 episodes. Yeah, she was somebody's mom, obviously. Yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah, I never could get into Charmed.
Never could hang with it. No, it's no good. Duly noted. Next up, we got Cliff DeYoung, who plays her dad, Tom Campbell.
very familiar face yeah from uh good old uh shock treatment shock treatment he's one of those guys that you're like hey i know that guy oh yeah he's now 80 he is 80 years old now i looked it up
That's amazing. Cliff to old. Cliff to old. In your face, motherfucker. Here, this is what we're going to do. We're going to set up. Hello, this is the Doomed Show. Go fund me.
to find Cliff DeYoung, meet him in person, and say, Cliff DeOld. That should be our goal. That's what we need to do as a show, as a people. Where is Cliff DeYoung?
so that we can call him Clifty Old. And I want him to sign my shock treatment DVD, please. Heck yeah, I want him to sign my Dr. Giggles Blu-ray. Hell, he's like, I was in that?
What? Nobody told me. Next up is Jennifer's ineffectual boyfriend, Max. He's played by Glenn Quinn.
He was in a bunch of episodes of Roseanne. Holy shit. Yeah, and he was on Angel and then he accidentally overdosed. Aww, that's sad. To death. All the way to death. Whoa.
He might come back, though. Well, Roseanne came back and has gone again. You never know.
His first gig as an actor was Beverly Hills 90210. He played Party Jock. Party Jock? Party Jock. Heck yeah. Season 1, Episode 1. Holy shit.
Wow, he's... I mean, you saw his face. I did. He was in Beverly Hills 90210. We got Keith Diamond, who plays Officer Joe Reitz.
He is our voice of reason in this movie. He is absolutely trying to save the town which is in denial over what's going on. Yes. Absolutely.
But yeah, he was in some good stuff. If you click his name, Keith Diamond, on Wikipedia, it takes you to Men in Black, the series. Really? Yep.
I don't know why. That seems like a link that's not quite right, but whatever. Oh, it was in the cartoon. Yeah, he was the voice in the cartoon. Oh. Yeah. I've seen the first Men in Black.
Yes, I've seen two of the three movies, or is there four now? I can't remember. And two was enough for me. Two is hideous. Yeah, yeah. No, thank you. But yeah, he's really good in this movie. I really like him in this.
Well, wait a minute. Keith Diamond. Yeah, he is the hero of the thing. I got you. Next up, we got Richard Bradford from...
From something. But he plays Officer Magruder. Hank Magruder. The Smiths used a photograph of him on the cover of their single, Panic, which I did not realize. That's incredible.
Oh, wow. That is incredible. Yeah, Tim Young. Oh. Yeah, The Untouchables, Legend of Billie Jean. Holy shit. Yeah. He plays, he's the Donald Pleasant's character of this little soiree.
Yep. Yep. He's Dr. Loomis. Yeah. I love when he yells at Dr. Giggles later in the movie, but we'll talk about that when we talk about that. A couple of other people. I don't want to get into everybody, but I have to mention.
Elaine Henderson is the nosy neighbor, and she's played by Nancy Fish. Nancy Fish. Oh, man. I want this lady to narrate my autobiography.
She's funny. She's great. I thought she was tremendous. And of course, she's the nosy neighbor. Well, we'll get there. I thought you were going to say Dougie Doug is in this. That blew my mind. I was like, wait, I know that name.
yeah he was on a cosby show a cosby show not i don't think he was on the cosby show but he was on a cosby show and
Of course, cool runnings, which every kid my age in 1993 saw. Sure, sure. And snowboarding in the Sahara.
But yeah, no, I thought that was really cool. And I've got something kind of sort of related to say at the end here. But he plays Trotter, one of the teenagers.
Teenager I Couldn't Wait to Die is Stu, played by Darren Heames. No offense, Darren Heames, but you are one of my least favorite people.
To show up in a 90s slasher. Man, this guy. Wow. He is so irritating in 90s slashers.
If you've ever seen The Fear, where he's got like a kind of he like adopted like a Rasta hip hopper kind of voice. It's really, really bad. Good boy.
I'm sure he's a wonderful person, but man, I, yeah, he's, Oh God, I, my, but we'll never know. Cause now he's offended. He and I will, we'll make up, we'll make up. Okay. But no, he, I hate to admit.
how much the air got sucked out of the room when he showed up in this. I was like, no, but he's fine. He's fine. Uh, he also has one of the craziest scene. Yes.
Yes. And he does have the craziest scene in the movie. So we'll give the second craziest scene in the movie. But of course, I do like him in Night of the Demons 2. Gotcha. He's fine in that. He's fine. One more. I cannot resist.
Speaking of Night of the Demons 2, we've got Zoe Trilling, who play, her character's name is Normie.
She's just the shitty friend who's trying to help break up Max and Jennifer. She's just an asshole in this. But I love her in Night of the Demons, too. She's wonderful. Zoe?
Trilling. She has passed away as well. Recently? Or no? 23. 2023. Damn. That's sad. 57. Well. Yeah.
She's also in Toby Hooper's Night Harrors, which I haven't seen and probably no one else did. I have a very nice copy of it and I'm going to watch it soon. I have finally found a good copy of it. Take that, Brad.
No, Brad, you can take that because I'll send you. It was, hey, full disclosure, it was on archive.org. Who knows it may not still be there, but it was like eight gigs.
Wow. I was like, why is this eight gigs? You better be careful. Toby Hooper Stanley doesn't come around looking for any change. Speaking of people coming back from the dead to get what they want.
Alright, so like I said, spoiler alert, we're going to talk about this plot in quick succession. Because, you know, we want to give you the meat and potatoes, but not too much of the gravy. Mmm, gravy, optional.
I need to close. Gravy optional. Hello, this is the Doomed Show. Gravy optional. Gravy option.
All right, so that's going on our Clifty Young thing. We're going to have a gravy option. Yeah, we're going to give him a Hello, This is the Doom Show gravy optional t-shirt. Yeah, that's right.
One of the perks will be gravy. You don't have to. It's optional. No, you don't have to. It's optional, but we'll give it to you if you want it.
Oh, my God. Brad, tell us about the opening scene of this film. Tell us about it. So the opening scene serves as the slasher film's origin.
It opens and it tells us what has happened in the past that is going to cause all this trouble, right? Yep. In the town of Morha, people are going missing.
And they discover it is the doctor whose wife has a heart problem and he is trying to fix it by removing other people's hearts. So the townspeople discover this and they kill him, but his young son is nowhere to be found.
So the mother died. The original Dr. Rendell, he has died. The police shot him. So where did the little boy go? Where is he? And that sets up, that's the whole story there.
I love the title sequence that has the most lamest freaking CGI. Hey, they're doing the best they could.
But they were a little too proud of it. So we have the blood vessels going through all the arteries and whatnot until we get to the heart. And then the heart gets stabbed by Dr. Giggles. It's a very long title sequence.
1993 was the future, and they would just show us what they could do. It's funny that it looked better than the pills from the Stendhal syndrome.
in 1996, when Ozzy Argento takes those two pills and they go down her gullet. This looks better because Italy didn't know how to do special effects. Right.
Oh boy. What happens at the operating theater?
This is where we're introduced to Dr. Rendell Jr., who actually, as far as I can tell, never received a medical degree, but wants to be a doctor so bad, we're just going to let him do it. Yeah, make it happen. He is orating.
during a surgery it's one of those surgical theaters and there are people up above watching him and surrounded in the glass and he's talking this that and the other and just killing the person he's got strapped to the table
And as you look up, you realize all the doctors above that we're watching are actually other mental patients and he has released all of them.
But took the time to do a little surgery here. About this time, security shows up. But of course, as we know him, Dr. Giggles gets away. Yep. He...
the tagline of this movie should have been Dr. Giggles be the change you want to see in the world. They thought about that actually. It's one of the alternate titles.
for the nether ones i believe we we uh is that where that's at mark well we'll ask mark about that yes i'm a dr gill's expert so
I don't think you can question that, really. Okay. Nuff said. It's School's Out. This is a good School's Out movie. You have to ask yourself, who were you taking to the summer bash?
We meet our heroine Jennifer. I wrote in my notes that she's upset about her bum heart flapper. That's essentially it, yeah. I read that out of a medical textbook.
She has a heart condition that just needs a simple operation, but she's really scared about it because it's a similar previously undetected...
heart problem that killed her mother so she's very nervous about this and it's causing some static between her and her beautiful boyfriend this is true we get to have our nosy lady because of course
Dr. Giggles comes back to his hometown and goes to his father's house, which has been abandoned this whole time, covered in graffiti. And he goes down to the basement and reopens the practice.
It's such a cool scene, too, where he's breaking out where it's been plastered over. Yeah. And it's funny because there are so many rooms in his office, and you're thinking, he's just one doctor.
Right. How did he have a hospital under his house? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Of course, we know why. It's because it was for the movie. Exactly. That answers all the questions. It's a great set piece. Yeah, it's a great set piece.
So we get some partiers. We get our gang of teenagers who want to party in the house. So we got Dougie Doug and we got Stu and their girlfriends.
and some other hangers-on who want to go to this frickin' Dr. Giggle House and party. Which I honestly thought was gonna be the whole thing. That the whole...
like impetus for this shit going down was the kids were trying to party in the house uh-huh but no they're just words yeah they're just daring each other to like do stupid shit uh it's very very silly scene but luckily
Um, you know, we get some body count kills right away more. Absolutely. Uh, let's see. Um, so that night, the, uh, her, her friend, her friend.
That night, Jennifer and her boyfriend are not having sexy time in the car because he wants to drink. But Dr. Zorda says she can't drink, so they're arguing and all this stuff. But more importantly, the cop roll up. Magruder rolls up.
And he's blasting a song called The Party's Over to these kids. It's such a charming little moment made even better when you find out what...
their makeout point is called. Did you catch what the makeout, like where the kids all go? Uh-uh. The name of it is Breeders Hill. Oh, that's right. Yeah, Breeders Hill. Oh, my God.
Oh, we've got a hill in town called Do It With Your Girlfriend. I know. Oh, my God. Oh, man. We'd probably just call it Shotgun Hill or something.
Right. There you go. Imagination. I don't have one. I don't have one. Little moment. I can't resist because this is a prequel to The Matrix. The nosy neighbors called the cops.
Dr. Giggles comes to take her out, and she is supposed to take this red pill for her heart medicine, maybe. I'm not sure what. Maybe blood pressure medicine. But he switches it to the blue pill, and she doesn't notice in time and takes it.
Yes, I thought that was a really... I really enjoyed that. That was good. Dr. Giggles, he wants to kill you in different and interesting ways. Yes, he will have...
comedically enhanced doctor's tools. Exactly. And I think that's what's needed in the medical industry. And, you know, it's so funny. I was going to save this for the end, but...
I do find this interesting. This sets up a franchise that never happened, right? Yes. We never had a Dr. Giggles 2. I'd have been all for it. Same.
Very much the same. I feel like Larry Drake was like, no, I don't want to do that again. But I'll do some of those Darkman sequels. Yeah, no kidding. He could have done both.
Exactly. Yeah, we would have been all, the world would have been a better place. Yes. We get a great scene. We should do Dr. Giggles too. Put that on the list. Yeah, man.
Cliff DeYoung. Now he's Cliff DeOld. DeOld, and we're going to tell him. And, hey, as a bonus, at the end of this episode, when we're talking about how we like this one, I'll tell you my sequel idea that I came up with.
Oh, I'd love to hear it. I got one word for you. Gravy. Optional. Optional. Optional. But you can have it. Two scenes I love that make me uncomfortable in this movie.
One, you'd think the condom scene with Stu, where he's dropping the condom in the toilet, fishing it out with his own toothbrush. I thought the joke was that it was at her house. But I think they're at...
His house? He's just grody. Yeah. But what makes me uncomfortable is he has his girlfriend dress up in his mother's lingerie for sexy time.
Elizabeth asked a question at that point, and I said, no, not at all. Also, Elizabeth said, this kid doesn't understand how condoms work.
No. Because it was like, they were getting ready for sexy time. Yep. There wasn't any sexy time going on. So, anyway.
There was some movie where they made a joke about wearing the condom all day in prep for sex. But I can't remember what that was. Huh. It was very funny. I mean...
From a practical standpoint, sure, but from a realistic standpoint, no.
Oh, boy. The next scene that makes me uncomfortable is when Jennifer is having her fight with Max. She storms off to go home. And good old Max is hooking up with this random girl.
Whose name is Corrine. Yeah, she's in an early scene at the school when they meet outside of the school. And you can tell she's going to be a problem.
Yeah, she's a very odd-looking young woman. She's unique-looking. Yes, unique is the nice way I should have said it. She's good, but she's a little strange.
In four episodes of Beverly Hills 90210. Good for her. It's a breeding ground, I'm telling you. But...
Apparently, Max plays saxophone in the school band, and we have the saxophone seduction scene. And...
He's teaching her about fingering and putting the reed in her mouth. And I want to quote Lietta here. That's not how you play saxophone at all. No, Lietta said, and I quote, make it honk.
Wow. Yep. Dr. Gilbert was the best movie ever made.
I'm laughing. I'm sweating. I'm laughing from Lietta saying that. That's so funny. Oh, my God. Make it honk. Make it honk.
Oh, man. Ladies, make it honk. Okay. Make it honk. Oh, my God. I just can't believe it like that. Why not? Oh, you got to use the right embouchure.
What's that? It's the way you place your lips. I've never had a problem with my lips before. Maybe you better show me what I'm doing wrong. The fun fair is in town. That's where all these...
Kids are at this summer bash. Brad, tell me what happens when Dr. Giggles is chasing Jennifer, or he decides to get Jennifer at the old fun fair.
So she goes into the fun house with the mirrors, and of course he follows her in there. And there's a cat and mouse. Then in comes her boyfriend and Corinne. Corinne immediately walks into a wall.
and breaks her nose because she's bleeding. And she's like, this is not a cool thing to happen to me at all. And then she gets murdered by Dr. Giggles and her day goes downhill from there.
It's a really neat kill. I really like all these crazy medical implements that I assume are not real, but Brock could be. I don't know.
You're always asleep in there, right? You're never in a surgery room awake. He puts a giant band-aid on her face and suffocates her. He did. And I'm like, where?
Where did he come up with this gigantic band-aid? And you just, for the sake of the movie, you're just like, that's fucked up, John. And go on. And I love how he's been...
Dropping quips. That's one thing about Dr. Giggles. There might not have been a sequel just because they used every single medical quip and a few that don't even exist to like, you know, like sayings about doctors and stuff.
But when we see her with the giant band-aid, he goes, don't worry, it's ouchless. Yeah, it's ouchless. Brilliant.
I don't even know if people today would even know what that means. We do. That's all that matters. There's all these mirrors. Before she goes in there, you get to see some split doctor. I wanted to mention that. Thank you.
in this film oh yeah i wrote that in my notes to mention that yes sir yes the film does not feel under budget to me at all it feels like it was perfectly budgeted yes absolutely lots of
production uh design was really good so this the mirror setup you've got like you've got her in one mirror and him and all the other ones i mean she's really cool and it reminded me of orson wells the lady from shangha
which stars Rita Hayworth, and that reminded me of Modern Family. So Phil has got some problem neighbors, and they've parked their giant boat. They're rednecks, basically. He's got redneck neighbors, and they've parked their giant boat.
uh in the driveway phil invites his dad and all these other retired uh army military folks to come and drive them crazy well easy
His dad's played by Fred Willard, so he gets out and he's like, okay, dad. He's like, hey, uh...
What's the plot of that Rita Hayworth movie? And he's like, the lady from Shanghai? It was about a horse. Or was it a baby? Funny thing is that none of it takes place in Shanghai. Or was all of it in Shanghai?
Shanghai. Anyway, this horse or baby? And I just, I was.
Fred Willard and I love Marv. Oh my God. I just thought that's so funny. Thank you. It's about a horse or was it a baby? Elizabeth has that.
all memorized that she'll do it. She's like the lady from Shanghai. So it reminded me of that, but it's just a really good scene. Dr. Giggles encompasses more than just a typical slasher film. You've got the summer party.
with all the fair fun house and everything. You've got all those set pieces, which in a lesser budgeted film might be the only place it was set. Right, exactly.
And so you've got all these different places. The doctor's house is a beautiful, obviously haunted mansion. There's just a lot of set pieces here.
that I think really work out. The doctor's office is a very nice one, and we'll get to that in coming up. But no, I think there's a lot of, I think money went where it should have. Yep, yep.
Somebody yells, I don't have to promise you doodly squat. Doodly. That's one of my notes.
We take an angel hair pasta, toss it with lots of wick and marinara. We make a mean lean cuisine. We take a ooh la la, french cut green beans, roast the chicken like never ever.
Let's talk about that scene, Brad. The scene. Let's talk about what happens here. The cop has his flashback to what he saw.
the night, you know, Magruder, Magruder. Uh, what happened to Magruder? Okay. So do you mind if I frame this around the first time I saw it? Please do. Back in the day between, between marriages.
ben and i were at home in the trailer we grew up in a trailer it's a mobile home for some of you and we had air conditioner in our bedroom and dad's bedroom but dad's bedroom had the vcr on the tv
So we would go in there, crank it to like 60 degrees, and just chill out, watch movies and stuff. So my brother and I, we rented Dr. Giggles. And...
I will say that, I will say what's about, what's about happening in the scene is by far the most graphic thing that I had seen up until that point in my life. So, the Gruder goes into flashback mode, and so we get a nice...
black and white and he is he is the only cop left he is the young guy 20 years old and he's been left to sit behind with the bodies at the morgue overnight so he's sitting there drinking some what was it moon what do you call it
Oh, shit. Yeah. Or whatever. It's some alcohol that he had kept in his locker for 25, 35 years. Anyway, so he hears a giggle in the distance.
He takes another swig, and he gets up to investigate. And we follow him through the morgue, and there's all these dead bodies everywhere with sheets over them. And you hear more giggling. So he follows it. He pulls the sheet off, and it is the doctor's dead.
dead wife the one who just died from the heart heart ailment and you just hear giggling coming from inside her body and then a blade comes out of her chest and just cuts her wide open
And our young Dr. Giggles climbs out of her body. And it's bloody. And he's laughing and giggling. The kid's really good. The kid's having a great time.
He's having a great time, which is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. For a long time...
And that's how I remember Dr. Gale was because of that scene. Because it was so, I was like, I never guessed that was going to happen. I was curious as to how the kid got out, but I would never have thought sewn up enough.
And a dead body. So that really, it didn't freak us out, but we were just like, Whoa, did you see that? You know, we weren't scared or anything. Did that really happen? Yeah.
Great special effects, by the way. I mean, everything. The special effects in this film were really good. Yeah. It's weird because the movie, it felt restrained up until that point. I think they were trying to...
have these medical kills and these medical gross outs and stuff, but I feel like they knew if they didn't hold back a little bit, they would run into trouble with the MPAA later.
So they put everything into that scene and it was like, holy shit. The humdinger. Yes, sir. This is why when Magruder...
finally confronts Dr. Giggles. He yells, you owe me 35 years of sleep, you sick son of a bitch. And he means it. I mean, we get it. Yep.
Because we have been subjected to the same thing he was, obviously, as the audience. And boy, I'm telling you, it's a humdinger of a scene.
So, yes, he's going to try to fix Jennifer. He hears about her ailment of her heart. So he's going to do what his father never could and do the successful heart transplant.
Good luck with that. But tell us about our final girl here and the showdown. Honestly, I felt like she had been kind of weak.
There's one scene where she stumbles down a hill, and when he catches up, she clocks him with a rock, and that was good. But otherwise, it was just really a lot of screaming and not running away, not helping the people that were trying to help her. Yeah, absolutely.
But she totally redeems herself in the end. So in the end, we go through, we've set fire at Dr. Giggle's house. He is burned up. He's dead. She is in the hospital, obviously.
So Dr. Giggles is not dead. There's blood seeping under the door of the operating room and they open the door and there's dead doctors everywhere. Dr. Giggles chases her down, gets her into like a supply closet.
And as soon as you see it, you know what's going to happen. And this was before, of course, it's not quite the same, but it's before it was done in a screen film, obviously. But she pours.
something flammable on him and onto the floor, and it pulls out the paddles, charges it, touches it to the ground, to the liquid, and it electrocutes him to death.
So he's been shot, he's been stabbed, he's been on fire, and now he's been electrocuted to death. You tell me that he can't stack up with Jason, right? He is...
Ready to be among the freaking big boys. Absolutely he is. Yep.
The score is a little strange. Brian May, who did a bunch of... The Australian guy did a bunch of soundtracks. Very famous guy. Also, he was the guitarist of Queen.
No, it's the other guy. It has weirdly familiar beats in it that I feel like he reused in another movie or somebody was imitating him. I can't place it. It's very familiar music.
I did want to mention, and I'm glad you brought it up, the split diopter. This cinematographer, this is Robert Draper.
One thing is strange to me, this movie feels very crisp and very clean. Like, I wish it grunged it up a little bit, just because it's very slick.
It is very slick. Looking. And that is not a criticism. It's just one of those things I couldn't help but notice. But this guy, he shot Halloween 5. Hey. Oh, hey. I know a guy. This film has got it all in it. It's got...
It's got funny parts. It's got parts that probably aren't supposed to be funny that are. It's got, like I said, production value is certainly there. Larry Drake is a horror icon.
You know, from Night of the Scarecrow, he's Santa in the Tales from the Crypt episode all through the night. Oh, yeah. And he is in Darkman and L.A. Law, both scary. No. But I wish he had sought a career as a horror character actor and gone the route of Robert Englund or Donald Pleasance even.
where we could have seen him in a variety of horror films. We rented this when it came out. Obviously, I did not see it at the theater. Nobody in their right mind would have took me to see it at the time. But...
Anyway, yes. I think it's a great film. I think if you haven't seen it in a while, check it out again. If you haven't seen it, check it out for the first time. Yeah.
I think it's got a Scream Factory regular old Blu-ray edition. It's not collector's edition. No slipcover. It's not artificially inflated price.
I really liked this viewing. This was great. I'm just glad that the obnoxious teens kind of got taken out first. Yes.
The most annoying people got out of there quickly. I love the jokes. Oh, man, my favorite joke is time to do what doctors do best, and he reaches into his golf bag.
Gets out of golf clubs and starts swinging. That made me laugh so hard. For the most part, he delivers that so deadpan that it just works. It works.
The year was right for a grunge soundtrack, but sadly they couldn't afford any grunge music. There were some almost, kind of, could-be grunge bands, but oh man, I just love me a grunge movie.
Last thing I wanted to say was yes. So this was a flop. It did make its money back, according to Wikipedia. And I'm sure it did well on home video. Uh-huh.
And cable stuff. But it just did not set the world on fire. So nobody is asking for a sequel. But I'm here to deliver. Yeah. I should have said this earlier too. But you do get a slasher truck classic.
in the dead teenager birthday party except this time it's a dead teenager waiting room yes i love that set piece when we find everybody that's so good yep and that's a that's a slasher classic
nice but it felt original too you know because it did have this backstory they were able to really tie it together uh on the on the blu-ray and i'm sure i don't know if you noticed or saw
I listened to a big chunk of Manny Cotto's interview. He was very complimentary about the film, looking back in hindsight. And then there was an archival interview with Larry Drake.
who just, he said, he said, you know, I did it. He's like, it was fun. It's not really a lot of information from Larry Drake, but he does talk about the film a little bit. So that was nice.
There's lots of extras on this Blu-ray. Lots of extras. I believe there's a commentary as well. There is. I'll probably listen to commentary at some point.
If you haven't seen Dr. Heroes, I recommend it. Now, what is your idea for a sequel? Okay. So, another resident of More High returns...
But not from the insane asylum. She returns in disguise because she's one of those angel of death nurses. So all...
Her whole career has been going from place to place, working in hospitals and killing patients, like surreptitiously killing all these patients to spare them their pain.
And so she's finally been run out of town and has returned to where she was born, which was good old More High. And she discovers the secret or she's...
always known about dr giggles and was like inspired by him or something so she decides to try to resurrect him yes and they become like a dynamic duo of medical murder
Yes. So you got this angel of death and you've got zombie Dr. Giggles. Yes. I'm here for it. That sounds great to me. Thank you. Thank you. That's as far as I got.
I like your angel of death. I thought you might say that somehow it gets resurrected otherwise and they fight. They're like, she's killing people. And he's like, no, I get to kill them. How dare you? But that's the thing.
They can't be buds. They're going to have to fight at the end. Exactly. Dude, we have got a cult classic on our hands. We just need to get the money to go see Clifty Young.
And then we'll work on this. He's like, can I please reprise my role? And we'll be like, yes, sir, do it. Absolutely. Yeah, we will retcon the hell out of it.
jennifer's dad made it and he's in the new one yep so brad um you asked me if we had any feedback uh-huh and i found one review
That within the, within the last 12 months. Yes. On a good old, good old Apple podcast here. Someone gave us a nice review. Oh. And it says.
This is from Crazy Star Wars Fanboy. And it says, horror movie fanboy here saying, Richard brings great convos about cinema.
check out this amazing podcast. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. Um, I also wanted to read the worst feedback we've ever gotten on the show.
Please. Did we talk about Mr. Feck? I don't think so. I was going to say I was drunk that night. I wrote that, but no, Mr. Feck.
Yep, Mr. Feck. So, folks, if I brought this up on the show before, I apologize. This is from two years ago, but I'm still reeling. This is a one-star review. Thank you, crazy Star Wars fanboy.
For giving the five stars. We appreciate that. But here's a one star rating. These tool bags are vapid. That's the title.
Oh, I remember. Yes. And it says, this is what it sounds like. Two people shot at the mall with the movies. Notice of comparison from history or art hard pass.
I mean, yeah. I mean... Guilty as charged. I feel called out. Yeah, comparison of art. I mean... Feck, you say? Mr. Feck.
Mr. Fick I'm pretty sure he won't be listening to this one I think this is his favorite episode It could be
But folks, doommoviethon at gmail.com if you want to send us some feedback on this episode. You want to tell us our tool bags are vapid. Or leave a review. We like feedback. Yeah.
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they won't hear it but we'll say it reaching literally dozens of people who will then have to broadcast it on social media for it to go viral nice Okay, well, Brad, before I let you go back...
into the care of Dr. Giggles once again. Please tell me about a recently seen and loved film. It can be an old favorite or a first time watch. What do you got?
All right, so Undefeatable, directed by Godfrey Ho, starring Cynthia Rothrock, was an incredible film. It was amazing.
I need to see this. Elizabeth picked it out, and as we were watching it, I'm like, I could tell that I was digging it more than she was. But it's pretty crazy. Apparently, it went viral.
I don't know. One of the last fights went viral a few years ago and made it famous-er than it is. It's insane. I mean, it's totally insane.
The ending of it. Some great martial arts. The most nonchalant acting. Like, I like to think if you hired me to just...
i don't know set it up set it a counter or something that i could probably do that because i know how to set it a counter right these people they're like making coffee and they're like would you like to have some of this
coffee and you're just like uh you're just in awe of it because you you go into this into this zone and then there's martial arts and there's
like there's the all these gangs but there's only like four or five people in each gang which i don't think it really even qualifies as a gang if you've only got like four or five people but yeah it's
So it starts Cynthia Rothrock, then the cop, the main guy cop is an actual martial artist that's really good. And then the villain was insane.
I do want to say there is a very unfortunate scene early in the film.
I'm pretty sure it's a dinner scene and I'm pretty sure you'll know where it's going and you just skip over the rest of it. But it is...
It is building to this character's villainy, which does no bounds. Damn. And, of course, he gets his just desserts in the end, and it's well worth...
it's well worth seeing it uh that was a rough scene and i just fast forwarded through it um sure sure so i want to let make sure everybody understands that um uh so yeah but undefeatable was
Pretty incredible. I think what it was was is Elizabeth thought it was going to be Asian people and so I accused her of being
A white racist. And she's like, is that right? And I'm like, I don't know. She thought it was going to be like Asian cast.
with Cynthia Rothrock. But no, this was actually a Hong Kong production that was filmed in America. Sure, sure. I love it. That sounds amazing. We've got some Asian people here and I'm sure there could have been more in the film locally.
But it was an American production. I sort of understand where Elizabeth's coming from. It's like me not enjoying kung fu movies that are set.
in ancient China as much as I enjoy Kung Fu movies set in like modern Hong Kong or something. Like I prefer, I just have the thing I prefer. So yeah. Sure.
I totally could see why you'd be like, hmm. And a lot of times the actors are picked because they're good looking and they speak English and the budget is low. So when you have an all English cast.
directed by somebody from another country, it can be a little crazy.
I probably wouldn't have picked it had I remembered the rape right off the bat. Yeah. You know, and it's one of those things, it serves the plot. I mean, it sounds like it sets up the whole movie.
It sets up the entire movie. Yeah. So, you know, unpleasant, but at least they had a point to it. This guy plays this character at 11. I mean, it's solid.
He'll beat up children. He'll, yeah.
So I want to give a shout out to Rod Barnett and Troy Gwynn of the old Beyond Nashy cast and the Nashy cast for my pick.
I watched Night of the Walking Dead from 1975, finally. Oh, you had not seen it? I had never seen it. I've had multiple bootlegs of this frickin' movie.
for so many years and I just said no I'm not going to watch this until there's absolutely no way this is going to get a better copy and I held out I held out for like
freaking 14 years or something. Uh-huh. And sure enough, good old Severin, they put out the box set, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.
with the Night of the Frickin' Walking Dead in a nice Blu-ray. And it absolutely exceeded my expectations.
It's a gothic vampire film from Spain, and it is an absolute banger. I think it's my favorite non-nashy movie.
vampire film from Spain. I'm not sure if we have that set. Was it a Donza Macabre set? Yeah. Number two? No, three. Yeah, I think it's three.
Yeah, it's three. Okay, so this is the Leon Klamovsky film. Yes, yes. Okay.
This is the one that Rod and Troy, I believe it was Rod and Troy. I know it was Rod. I wasn't sure. Maybe Troy isn't on that episode. I forget. But they were always selling Night of the Walking Dead so well. And I was like, oh, wait.
But that set had all four I'd never seen before. This is one of Ted's favorite films. Nice. Nice. Period. Hell yeah. I see why.
I see why. It is absolutely great. We got it as a bootleg, and then he sent me a DVD that was better than the bootleg.
Nice. And now we own it on Blu-ray. And it is. It's one of his favorites. And I know it gets some crossover love from Franco fans because Emiko is in it.
Mm-hmm. She's amazing. She's the star of the movie, and she steals the whole thing. She's wonderful. Wonderful. I'm excited to see it in a better format. Oh, man. It's...
It's an absolute treat and just probably my favorite disc of the year. Just, just because I got that. I finally got it, you know? Nice.
Yeah. But that's all I got. That was my pick. Alrighty. I think that's a show. Dude, Brad, thank you for joining me, sir. Thank you for having me.
Of course. We had a good time, didn't we? We absolutely did. I've been giggling this whole time. Good. That's what I'm shooting for.
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