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.
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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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
Jan 19, 2007 Wide
May 6, 2008
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As amateurishly made as it is, Teeth runs on a kind of angry distrust toward boys.
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.
Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic.
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
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.
Extremely funny, very clever and still packs some cover-your-face bloody thrills that top any Saw or Hostel movie.
I'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly.
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.
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.
It's like a punch in the face.
Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's low-budget horror film is...more satirical than scary...however, he ultimately delivers the gory goods.
Teeth is a unique hybrid of black comedy and horror movie send-up that is great good fun.
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
This is an incredibly unique, dark, smart, and humorous story of a woman discovering what she is capable of.
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.
It all works well enough that I wish it had been less of a cartoon.
You'll have to forgive the pun, but it simply lacks bite.
Teeth is too polite and PC to follow in those glorious grindhouse footsteps. It really should have reconsidered such a stance.
A well crafted clashing of sub-genres and themes that works to its advantage, making it an instant cult classic...
Dawn may be the heroine of Teeth, but in the end the movie is still a little afraid of her.
Lichtenstein has a lot of ambitious ideas for his debut film but lacks the skills to pull any of them off
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
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, 2011Super Reviewer
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