Teeth
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
Early reviews say the film never shies away from showing the gruesome carnage inflicted by this dame's chomping minge, and are not expecting this to be a popular date movie.
Less2007Rating: R1688 minsUSA
ComedyHorror
- Director:
- Mitchell Lichtenstein (feature debut)
- Cast:
- Jess WeixlerJohn HensleyJosh PaisHale ApplemanLenny von DohlenVivienne Benesch
Teeth | Reviews
80%71 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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Chicago Tribune
Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message... it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Teeth is extremely funny, very clever and still packs some cover-your-face bloody thrills that top any Saw or Hostel movie.
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Los Angeles Times
Campy, shameless and sophisticated, Lichtenstein's debut is gutsy and original.
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Salon
Teeth hinges on one strong idea but doesn't know quite where to take it, wobbling awkwardly between going for laughs and making its semi-delineated points.
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Wall Street Journal
Lichtenstein turns various images of emasculation into a black comedy that flirts, fairly tediously, with pornography.
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TV Guide
The film's mix of cheap gags, macabre coming-of-age story, social satire and Cronenbergian body horror is apparently meant to gel into black comedy, but it never quite does.
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The New York Times
As much as you applaud its satiric nerve, once Teeth has demonstrated how far it will go, its joke becomes repetitive.
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Hollywood Reporter
A solid first effort that makes you extremely curious about the filmmaker's next project.
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Variety
A game, disarming lead performance from Jess Weixler... goes some way toward making palatable this mish-mash.
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Teeth is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.