the brilliance of this movie be that even a competent dentist be pretty scary . it one of man primal fear . this movie be the nightmarish image every kid have to go through in the waiting room . corbin bernsen give a surprisingly non lackluster performance a a crazed dentist who i guess try to kill people but he only work on their teeth so it not really work out . in a particularly gory scene we find so so actor earl boen have his teeth completely destroy with drill and whatnot and which i guess be the absolute bad you can do when youre a killer dentist . it a typical brian yuzna situation and not well write but there gore . the plot be shoddy and at time seem to be make up on the spot but hey and it a killer dentist movie and we have all thought of it but they do it first .