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Teeth

Teeth (2007)

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79

Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 14

Smart, original, and horrifically funny, Teeth puts a fresh feminist spin on horror movie tropes.

79

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 4

Smart, original, and horrifically funny, Teeth puts a fresh feminist spin on horror movie tropes.

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45

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 31,165

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Movie Info

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

R, 26 min.

Documentary, Horror, Comedy

Mitchell Lichtenstein

May 6, 2008

$0.2M

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Critic Reviews for Teeth

All Critics (66) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (14) | DVD (3)

As amateurishly made as it is, Teeth runs on a kind of angry distrust toward boys.

November 24, 2011 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Whether you view it as a primordial image from the collective unconscious or a practical warning against promiscuity, vagina dentata makes an indubitably memorable impression -- and an ideal premise for a tongue-in-cheek teen horror movie.

March 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Jim Emerson
Chicago Sun-Times
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Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic.

March 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Tasha Robinson
Chicago Tribune
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Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic. Granted, a horror movie about vagina dentata was probably never destined to be tasteful, but Lichtenstein's comp

March 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Jessica Reaves
Chicago Tribune
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It's definitely not for Aunt Minnie, but cult movie mavens will appreciate director Mitchell Lichtenstein's willingness to push the boundaries of bad taste.

March 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Extremely funny, very clever and still packs some cover-your-face bloody thrills that top any Saw or Hostel movie.

January 25, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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I'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly.

November 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Dave Calhoun
Time Out Source: Time Out

While probably too lurid and graphic for the mainstream's tastes, it's one of those films that has a genuine shot at acquiring cult classic status.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

We haven't had a good vagina dentata movie in theaters lately, so it's a pleasure to see Teeth filling that particular need with such obvious relish and style.

April 28, 2011 Full Review Source: East Bay Express | Comment
Kelly Vance
East Bay Express

It's like a punch in the face.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Dave White
Movies.com

Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's low-budget horror film is...more satirical than scary...however, he ultimately delivers the gory goods.

January 21, 2009 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

Teeth is a unique hybrid of black comedy and horror movie send-up that is great good fun.

September 2, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment
Heather Huntington
ReelzChannel.com Source: ReelzChannel.com

The tone of the film wavers between satire and horror-comedy, but that doesn't diminish the entertainment value of what plays like a tongue in cheek celebration of a woman who turns her imperfection into empowerment

August 3, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

This is an incredibly unique, dark, smart, and humorous story of a woman discovering what she is capable of.

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

a witty satire that explores the state of the (female) body politic, spread-eagled between the puritanical and the priapic in a culturally confused America.

July 14, 2008 Comment
Anton Bitel
Little White Lies

It all works well enough that I wish it had been less of a cartoon.

May 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | Comment
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

You'll have to forgive the pun, but it simply lacks bite.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comments (2)
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com

Teeth is too polite and PC to follow in those glorious grindhouse footsteps. It really should have reconsidered such a stance.

May 4, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters | Comment
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

A well crafted clashing of sub-genres and themes that works to its advantage, making it an instant cult classic...

April 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Dawn may be the heroine of Teeth, but in the end the movie is still a little afraid of her.

March 28, 2008 Full Review Source: LarsenOnFilm | Comment
Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm

Lichtenstein has a lot of ambitious ideas for his debut film but lacks the skills to pull any of them off

March 27, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
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Before I start the review, I would like to point out this is a quite sexual film. If you are not happy to hear about this, don't read on. If you are happy to, please enjoy the review. My good friend, Chloee, recently told me about this film. I had heard of it before, but never fully knew what it was about. When I

September 16, 2011
BG Movie Reviews
BG Movie Reviews 2011

Super Reviewer

Teeth is a genius hybrid of dark humor and clever horror that presents the evolution of innocence to something far more incomprehensibly sinister. A witty satire that strongly delivers metaphors against teenage promiscuity delivered in good taste for the curious audiences.

September 10, 2011
Jan Marc Macababayao
Jan Marc Macababayao

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Teeth Quotes

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    1. Tobey Cobb: I haven't jerked off since Easter!
    – Submitted by Calisha H (5 months ago)
    1. Dawn: That's what the ring is all about. The way it wraps around your finger - that's to remind you to keep your gift wrapped. Wrapped... until the day... you trade it in for that other ring. That gold ring. Get it?
    – Submitted by Chris P (10 months ago)
    1. Dawn: That's what the ring is all about. The way it wraps around your finger - that's to remind you to keep your gift wrapped. Wrapped... until the day... you trade it in for that other ring. That gold ring. Get it?
    – Submitted by Chris P (10 months ago)
    1. Dr. Godfrey: It's true! Vagina Dentata!
    – Submitted by Danielle M (11 months ago)

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