The Surgeon Movie Review 1994

Routine hospital horror finds Dr. Theresa McCann (Glasser) caught up in murder when patients and doctors become poison victims. Aided by toxicologist Benjamin Hendricks (Remar), McCann finds a lollipop left behind and realizes the killer is ex-boyfriend/doctor Julian Matar (Haberle), whose unlawful experiments in tissue regeneration got him suspended. Now he's hiding out in the hospital and killing to get the pituitary glands necessary for his miracle serum. Film's original title "Exquisite Tenderness" is a term for the point when pain becomes so extreme it turns to pleasure--the film merely turns grisly.

Distribution

A-PIX Entertainment Inc., 200 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., New York, NY 10016, Phone: (206)284-4700, Fax: (206)286-4433

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Doctors & Nurses, Hospitals & Medicine

Screenplay

Patrick Cirillo

Cast

Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Sean Haberle, Charles Dance, Peter Boyle, Malcolm McDowell, Charles Bailey-Gates, Gregory West, Mother Love

Cinematography

Thomas Burstyn

Director

Carl Schenkel

Music

Christopher Franke

Producer

Alan Beattie, Willi Baer, Chris Chesser, Rolf Deyhle, David Korda