Dr. Giggles [1992]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

There's a certain level of hesitation that goes into deciding to watch a recommendation from someone outside of our group, mainly because not everyone seems to get what we mean when we say "bad movie watching club." Bad is a subjective concept really but there is undeniably a trend with what we watch. However, when Kay's boss recommended "Dr. Giggles" we had to watch it. The title and description were more than enough evidence that it could be a winner.

Dr. Giggles is not a real doctor but the psychopathic son of a doctor. He spent his childhood slicing open his teddy bears and laughing a lot when his mom died from a heart issue. Now middle-aged, he breaks out of the asylum he's been put in and goes after various teens who think it's fun to break into his weirdly overlit house before fixating on 90s television actors, Holly Marie Combs (you saw her as Piper in "Charmed") and her boyfriend Glenn Quinn (you saw him on "Roseanne" as Mark or "Angel" as Doyle). Piper (forgot the character name; who cares) has a heart condition but is afraid of surgery because her mom died in surgery so she spends her evening drinking wine and looking at scrapbooks like a sad divorcee. Soon she has another heart problem: Mark made out with a skank who deep throats saxaphones while she was at home crying into her Pinot! After Dr. Giggles kills the required amount of first name only side characters with tricked out medical instruments and terrible puns as well as stabbing Piper's dad, he hunts her down in order to "fix" her and drags her to his evil hospital with minor character corpses in the waiting room. A rookie cop, who's two-days-from-retirement partner has been killed by Giggles, comes to save her and fights Giggles to the death which is really difficult because Giggles is too kinky to torture and mostly just gives his odd high-pitched tee-hee in response to pain. Mark helps an extremely drugged-up Piper escape from the hospital before it blows up and apparenly the cheating thing is forgotten. The movie ends with an EKG display speeding up and "Bad Case Of Lovin' You" by Moon Martin because of course.

"Dr. Giggles" is your typical bad horror movie, too gory and cheesy to be either scary or funny. There's almost no pun left untouched with the expection of the fact that laughing gas is somehow never used. I guess that's too much of dentist thing.

Quote: "When you wake up you'll have a change of heart."