Directed by: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Written by: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Rated: R
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s most active participant. Her task is mad…(read more…) e 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.
So obviously, there’s some expectations to be had, and more or less what I was expecting was a girl with teeth in her vagina. If you saw the preview trailer that took the internet by storm a year ago then you knew exactly what to expect: weiners getting bitten off.
But what surprised me most about Teeth was the discussion that we were left with afterwards. The main criticism that this movie has seen is that it depicts all of the males as perverts and rapists. To which I respond to that with: name one horror movie where there isn’t the stereotypical bimbo who falls out of her shirt or has sex with people for no reason other than to change the setting of the next murder. Women have been objectified in horror movies for years, and this film is one of the few times that the men get a little “eff you” back, and frankly we deserve it. The idea of gender roles is completely flipped upside down by this film and it’s a welcome change.
Oh and male genitalia and fingers get bit off by the teeth in this girl’s vagina. There is plenty of really screwed up gore in this film with penis heads and stumps spouting blood like a supersoaker.
So for those fans of good horror with not the best acting, but great gore, and very good undertones and social commentary, check out Teeth and scream at the television like we did. 8/10
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