The introduction (which can be found on United's VHS version and as a special feature on Something Weird's DVD) by "Godfather Of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis is probably the best thing here as he leads us into the only film by J.G. "Pat" Patterson (who worked with Lewis on his later gore efforts like Wizard Of Gore) which was believed to be lost, but obviously wasn't since we can all now revel in its total ineptness.

Patterson is a one man show here as director/writer/star/effects man for this heavily padded, thinly plotted, drive-in effort that has him starring as a doctor who loses his wife in a car crash and proceeds, with the help of his grunting hunchbacked assistant called Gregory(!), to piece together the perfect mate using body parts of the young girls he picks-up.

If you're a fan of trashy cinema then you should at least check out Doctor Gore once. Why you ask? That's simple - it's a completely junky time with cheap production values, lots of prolonged scenes (I suspect padding, why else show five minutes of the good doc stitching parts together?), overblown humour/acting (though Jenny Driggers isn't a bad looking woman) and some suprisingly okay gore moments (there's hand cutting, limb sawing and even a huge cleaver to the back - even if we have to wade through a dull first thirty minutes to get there).

Unfortunately this doesn't quite reach the "so bad, it's good" level and it's not quite as watchable as Patterson's mentor Lewis' films - but it does have a sort of goofy, talentless charm to it. Have a good chuckle when they wrap a corpse in tin foil and tape it to the table, the priceless "sheriff visit" moment and enjoy the country music interlude that appears halfway through. And the grating music score (which likes to loop Rogers & Hammerstein's "Favorite Things" from The Sound Of Music) is by late B-movie director William "Grizzly" Girdler. (Chris Hartley, 6/15/04)

Directed By: J.G. "Pat" Patterson.
Written By: J.G. Patterson, Jr.

Starring: J.G. Patterson, Jenny Driggers, Roy Mehaffey, Linda Foile.

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