"A dentist. A stranger. And a slow extraction of his life."
Novocaine (2025) returns as a darkly comic, noir-tinged descent into suburban chaos — where teeth aren’t the only things being pulled, and everyone smiles just a little too wide. A reimagining of the 2001 cult thriller, this version sharpens the blade with deeper paranoia, sharper humor, and a protagonist who learns that numbness is never enough when the rot is already inside.
Dr. Frank Sangster (played by Jake Gyllenhaal, hypothetically) is a straight-arrow dentist with the perfect life: clean office, spotless reputation, a fiancée as precise as his dental charts. But when a seductive new patient walks in — tattoos, trouble, and a smile full of lies — Frank’s world begins to fracture. One forged prescription becomes a stolen identity, and soon he’s wanted for drug trafficking, insurance fraud, and possibly murder.
As Frank spirals, the film shifts tones like a shifting bite: darkly comic one moment, bleak and paranoid the next. His life unravels in a haze of anesthetic, betrayal, and blood. The more he tries to clean up the mess, the more it spreads — like infection under the gum line. By the time he realizes he's not the hunter but the drilled, it's already too late.
Novocaine (2025) isn’t about dentistry. It’s about the illusion of control, the lies we bite down on, and the cost of letting someone else hold the needle.
