Teeth (2007)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 14
Smart, original, and horrifically funny, Teeth puts a fresh feminist spin on horror movie tropes.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 6
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
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Cast
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Jess Weixler
Dawn -
John Hensley
Brad -
Josh Pais
Dr. Godfrey -
Hale Appleman
Tobey Cobb -
Ashley Springer
Ryan -
Vivienne Benesch
Kim (Dawn's Mother) -
Lenny von Dohlen
Bill (Brad's Father) -
Nicole Swahn
Melanie (Brad's Girlfri... -
Julia Garro
Gwen (Dawn's Friend) -
Adam Wagner
Phil (Dawn's Friend)
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (14) | DVD (3)
As amateurishly made as it is, Teeth runs on a kind of angry distrust toward boys.
Top CriticI'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly.
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.
Teeth is both different enough from the usual teen trash to earn itself distinction and bold enough to go where other horrors wouldn't dare venture.
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
Audience Reviews for Teeth
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- Dawn: I killed him
- Ryan: You killed someone?
- Dawn: Almost two.
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- Tobey Cobb: I haven't jerked off since Easter!
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- Dr. Godfrey: It's true! Vagina Dentata!
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