Central Dental
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Lindsay Thomas Robinson
Genres: dark comedy, thriller
A mugged man with a missing tooth stumbles into a 24-hour dental clinic that should not exist. Once the anesthetic hits, the night gets a lot stranger than the mugging.
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Anyone who has ever sat in a discount dentist chair already knows this premise is a horror film. Robinson just had the nerve to actually shoot it.
Lindsay Thomas Robinson stages body horror in the most banal interior imaginable: a strip-mall dental chair. After Hours scaled down to a single procedure, and the composition earns the Cronenberg comp.
Body horror staged inside a strip-mall dental chair — Lindsay Thomas Robinson going noir on the most banal interior available is a sharp, carefully composed swing.
Reviews
An exercise in surreal atmosphere building, a noir-ish vignette, darkly clever and carefully composed.