Dr. Giggles (1992) on Netflix
Jennifer Campbell, nineteen, wears a heart monitor and plans her summer break with her boyfriend Max Anderson. Evan Rendell Jr. escaped from a mental asylum comes back to his father's house.
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Plot summary
In 1957, Dr. Evan Rendell's patients keep vanishing, and the townspeople find that he and his son have been cutting out their hearts to bring the doctor's wife back. They drag Rendell into the street and stone him to death, and his son disappears. Thirty-five years later the adult Evan Rendell Jr. escapes from a mental asylum. In Moorehigh, nineteen-year-old Jennifer Campbell plans her summer break with her boyfriend Max Anderson and their friends while she copes with a heart condition and the monitor she has to wear. Evan returns to his childhood home, goes through his father's files and gathers a list of names.
Cast
- Sara Melsonas Coreen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dr. Giggles (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Graeme Whifler's original script, called Mr. Giggles, was heavily rewritten because the producers wanted a horror franchise, and Whifler considered the result inferior. He went back to that first script years later and filmed it himself as writer-director of Neighborhood Watch in 2005.
- Manny Coto rewrote the script again at Largo Entertainment's request, drawing the comic family-doctor material from growing up with a father and a brother who are both doctors. He was aiming for the mix of dark humor and horror of Tales from the Crypt.
- Larry Drake nearly turned down the title role: he had already taken four horror parts since making his name on L.A. Law and feared being typecast. Coto won him over by selling the film as a comic-book picture and playing up the script's humor.
- Largo Entertainment signed an exclusive first-look deal with Dark Horse Comics in August 1992 to film the publisher's properties, and Dr. Giggles was the first picture to come out of that partnership.
