Product Description

Deeply unhinged over his wife's death, plastic surgeon and part-time mad doctor Don Brandon seeks a new mate. Bypassing traditional courtship rituals, the love-starved lunatic first tries to bring a pretty corpse back to life by, apparently, baking it in aluminum foil with the Frankestein-like lab equipment in the basement of his North Carolina castle. When that fails, he becomes Doctor Gore as he switches to Plan B: custom-building the girl of his dreams from severed body parts. Behaving like a stud version of Jack the Ripper, he takes pieces from a variety of sexy young gals until he's stitched together centerfold-style creation Anitra. But though he thinks he's created the ultimate love slave, Anitra has other ideas... Released to Southern drive-ins as "The Body Shop," this sick, blood-soaked love story is the creation of J.G. "Pat" Patterson, a one-time TV horror host, spook-show magician, producer (Axe), director (The Electric Chair), occasional actor, and production assistant to the Godfather of Gore himself, H.G. Lewis (Blood Feast), who obviously showed him the correct way to slice and dice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90731 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-10-02
• Rating: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 83 minutes

Customer Reviews

Amateurish exploitation
"Dr. Gore" is the second, but thankfully the last, film by director and lead actor J. G. "Pat" Patterson. (Mr. Patterson reportedly died a year or so after this movie was made. I'm guessing it was from lung cancer since he smoked about 100 cigarettes in this 80-min. feature.) It's the story of a "doctor" who loses his wife and then decides to build the "perfect mate." Like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, he goes out and kills half a dozen or so women and then sews together the parts that he likes best. The resulting "perfect mate" is a blond, well-endowed, empty-headed, bimbo.

Everything about this film is poorly done: the direction is bad, the camera work is awful, the editing stinks and the acting is abysmal. Don't get me wrong: I'm a huge B-movie fan. But this one is so technically inept that it's more annoying than entertaining. "Dr. Gore" isn't one of those so-bad-it's-good kind of movies; it's just plain bad. Apparently, the only reason this movie was made was so that middle-aged, bad-comb-over-guy Patterson could make out with a bunch of young chicks.

Admittedly, there are a few (unintentionally) funny moments. At one point, you hear someone knocking at the door. The doctor says to his hunchbacked assistant, Gregory, "Go get that, it might be the door." Later in the film, the doctor is in prison (although no one bothers to explain why he's there). Anyway, he's talking to a female prison employee who is scrubbing the floor. The camera angle shifts and suddenly you see the movie clapboard (you know, that big black and white wooden thing with chalk writing all over it that they clap together before every scene to synchronize the picture with the sound). Somehow, they just forgot to edit that part out! There's also a full-length country-music "video" in the middle of the film. It's supposed to be part of a nightclub scene, but it's so long and so poorly integrated that you'd swear it got there by accident. I'll bet that one of the investors was a frustrated singer and told Patterson that unless he let him sing in the movie, he wouldn't give him any money.

One positive thing can be said about this Something Weird DVD: it's got a ton of special features. There are no less than three featurettes (all three of them are completely unwatchable -- avoid them), an alternate opening sequence (which is interesting because it has a special introduction by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the "Godfather of Gore"), a dozen or so trailers and more. The trailers are particularly entertaining. Most of them are for nudie movies from the late ' 50s early '60s and are positively hilarious.

One out of five stars.

He's not a real doctor.
The five stars rating is for the movie itself (not the whole package).
This flick is total grade B with all the cliche's : every single expression and line of the acting seems pretentious and unatural.
Pat Patterson appearantly made this film so he could paint himself as some sort of leading man ( he's a real nerdball ) and so he could grope and slobber over young comely actresses.
He's a middle-aged, chain smoking, dull fella who's acting does not convince me he's a real doctor.
Doctor Gore has it all: Castle with basement lab, blood and gore, cheese-choking bad baroom singer, cute females and a complete cast that has obviously never, ever acted before.
If you like movies that are horridly bad despite trying to make a good film then you'll love it. If not, then leave it.
I loved it and was laughing out loud through the entire film and will force lots of unwillings to sit through a full viewing.

The "commentary" by Jeffrey Hogue is of little value. He speaks of his career and not about the movie at all, I love the commentary tracks to most films but this is of little interest.

Second feature "How to make a doll" is a total loser, not even entertaining grade B. It's about two dorks and I got so bored this is the first of the SOMETHING WEIRD movies I couldn't sit through, just too dorky for me.

The shorts, extras and especialy the trailers are great.
Five stars for the main feature and the extras.

Gore-drenched "Pygmalion"
Writer-director J.G. Patterson, aka "Dr. Gore" is out to create the perfect female. Since Patterson would never be confused with Mel Gibson, that's understandable. Assembling his synthetic Eve from the parts of unwilling beach bunnies, he creates the Perfect Woman: a slightly chubby blonde with dark roots. We don't need a big screaming SPOILER ALERT to tell the reader that it doesn't end well. Eagle-eyed viewers will spot the hunchbacked assistant "Greg" ( now, who would name their child something like that?) doubling as a suave nightclub singer in one scene.