The Dentist 2 (also known as The Dentist 2: Brace Yourself) is a 1998 American horror film, and sequel to the 1996 film The Dentist. It was directed by Brian Yuzna, with Corbin Bernsen reprising his role as Dr. Alan Feinstone, Jillian McWhirter as Jamie Devers, Jeff Doucette as Jeremy Wilkes and Susanne Wright as Bev Trotter.
Plot
The murderous Dr. Alan Feinstone remains 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. Feinstone's ex-wife Brooke is alive despite her missing tongue and inability to speak; 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.
Feinstone 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 of his practice to hide from the IRS. The bank officer Mr. Wilkes introduces Feinstone to his niece Jamie, hoping that she can rent out her small cottage for "Larry" to live in. Jamie, who physically resembles Brooke, becomes a target of Alan’s affections. When he has problems with a cap on one of his teeth, Feinstone visits the inept town dentist, and takes an instant disliking to Dr. Burns, especially when the cap falls back off after only an hour. Feinstone threatens the old man 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 recognizes him from L.A.
As the private detective tracks Alan down to Paradise, Feinstone learns that Jamie has an old admirer named Robbie, who also is the drywall contractor hired to finish his new office. Feinstone's insane 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 third grade. Meanwhile, Bev, a teller at the bank, has doubts about "Larry" and finds out his real identity while researching on the computer. She sets up an appointment to tell him she knows the truth, but after asking too many questions he duct tapes her to his dental chair and drills her tooth to the raw nerve as a "lie detector" to find out who else she has told. Robbie comes to install some more drywall, and after Bev screams for help, Alan kills Robbie with a hatchet before finishing Bev off by painfully extracting her teeth.
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 in 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. Feinstone 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 her scissors, but Jamie inadvertently hits her over the head with a 2x4, presumably killing her.
Feinstone finds Jamie hiding behind some drywall, and after banter between the two, Jamie fires a nail gun repeatedly and hits him with numerous nails. A stunned Feinstone 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 town shocked and Jamie to recover. Feinstone is last seen driving 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 as he drives down the road.
Reception
Brian Yuzna was nominated for Best Film at the 1998 Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain.
Cast
- Corbin Bernsen as Dr. Lawrence Caine/Dr. Alan Feinstone
- Jillian McWhirter as Jamie Devers
- Jeff Doucette as Jeremy Wilkes
- Susanne Wright as Bev Trotter
- Jim Antonio as Doc Burns
- Lee Dawson as Robbie Mauro
- Wendy Robie as Bernice
- Ralph Martin as Det. Jenkins
- Clint Howard as Mr. Toothache
- Linda Hoffman as Brooke Sullivan
- Judy Nazemetz as Margaret
- Audra Wise as Shawna
- Mary Coleston as Glenda
- Rende Rae Norman as Dr. Cussler
- Gina-Raye Carter as Sidewalk cafe owner (as Gina-Raye Swensson)
- Marcus Shirock
See also
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