| View Larger Image | Teeth | DVDStarring: Josh Pais, Lenny Von Dohlen, Vivienne Benesch, John Hensley, Jess Weixler
Also With: Wolfgang Held (Cinematographer), Robert Miller (Composer)
| List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $12.99 | | You Save: | $1.96 (13%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 94 minutes | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Weinstein Company | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Release Date: | May 06, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 8,039th |
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Description
Dawn (Sundance award winner Jess Weixler) is a pretty but prim high school virgin who unknowingly has a set of mutant teeth between her legs. When a supposedly likeminded boyfriend forces himself upon her, Dawn's vagina dentata start chomping -- which is just the beginning of "the most twisted story of female empowerment ever told" (DreadCentral.com). |
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A coming-of-age tale with a twist, Teeth takes a novel approach towards teen sexual angst. Sunny blonde Dawn (Jess Weixler, a Meryl Streep in the making) promotes abstinence at her high school. Her mother (Vivienne Benesch) is terminally ill, her half-brother (Nip/Tuck's John Hensley) is a tattooed sociopath, and her stepfather (Lenny von Dohlen) does what he can to keep the household together. When Dawn meets doe-eyed transfer student Tobey (Hale Appleman), her celibacy vow is put to the test. Simultaneously, she starts to realize her anatomy differs from other girls. Though Dawn's Austin environs recall the serene suburbs of Donnie Darko--except for the ominous smokestacks behind the family's ranch house--her secret power brings her closer in line with Carrie. It's a particularly feminine capability. When Carrie felt threatened, she used her mind as a weapon. In Dawn's case, a certain physical anomaly comes into play: the vagina dentata of ancient mythology (Camille Paglia, author of Sexual Personae, served as a consultant on the film). At first, Dawn has no control over the situation and, like De Palma's anti-heroine, she's horrified. But actor-turned-director Mitchell Lichtenstein (Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet), son of artist Roy Lichtenstein, ends his debut on a very different note. Along the way, there's satiric humor, squirm-inducing gore, and a star-making turn from Weixler, recipient of a special prize at Sundance for her "jaw-dropping performance." Teeth is neither anti-male nor anti-female--as some detractors have claimed--but it's definitely not for the squeamish or irony-impaired. --Kathleen C. Fennessy |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 71 reviews)
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Teeth... entering triumphantly leaving diminished by Julian Kennedy (St Pete Florida)  3 Stars
November 19, 2009
Teeth: 5 out of 10: This is the second [...] dentata film I have seen; it is unfortunately the lesser effort. This despite tremendous guerilla marketing campaign that could make one think this is the first cinematic foray into such a taboo subject let alone the greatest horror film since Sliced: The Baker of Bread.
The film spends its first half an hour on a lightweight parody of the Teen Chastity movement complete with the wearing of red rings to show that they are pledged virgins. In a creepy post release twist, the chastity group is called Promise and uses something that resembles the Obama presidential red O as its symbol. I am not sure this is what the Obama campaign had in mind.
After a half an hour of jabs at the religious right and nuclear power, (Cooling towers are ominously and unscientifically billowing black smoke behind our protagonists house.) The film segues into the feminist revenge film we all paid good money for.
Needless to say, hormones being what they are, the dentata enabled virgin (Jess Weixler) finds herself getting hot and heavy with her born again virgin boyfriend (Hale Appleman). When he takes her no to mean yes and attempts to date rape her... well her teeth go to work and Appleman finds himself short one manhood.
Do remember that film when the guy loves the girl and she betrays him so he cuts her [...] with a broken beer bottle, killing her, and the audience cheers him on? No? I dont either. Because they never made that film... and if they did, audiences would burn down the theater. Welcome to the double standard. And dont get me wrong, I approve of this particular double standard in theory, but the misandry of this film is overwhelming. Add in some unsubtle homosexual subtext (and gratuitous male nudity both membered and dismembered) and one gets the idea that the film is against heterosexual intercourse in general. This ironically gives it the same moral compass as the Chastity Group it mocks. This is simply forced chastity from the other side.
The problem is poor direction by Mitchell Lichtenstein. His tone is all over the place and sloppy. If he wants his protagonist to seek out lovers then kill them for imagined slights (as she does later in the film) shouldnt the film reflect this change from victim to predator?
Director Lichtenstein also wastes a tremendous performance by John Hensley as Weixlers older, evil brother. Hensley creates a character of true banal evil. A stupid selfish bad guy that feels like a very real person. His scenes are the best in the film, yet the climatic denouement is simply more of the same and honestly does not feel true to the character. (This would have been a perfect time for the film to put in a twist such as incestuous [...] sex.)
The films performances are overall quite good with Jess Weixler and Hensley as the standouts. The film is also extremely graphic with various male gentalia being sliced and gaping bloody wounds in the crotch area. (Not for nothing but would not a male member lose its erection if severed?)
Unfortunately, Teeth, much like that recent killer baby flick Grace, ends where it should have begun. If you want to see a Vagina Dentata film done right, take a gander at Angst (Or Penetration Angst, as it is known overseas.). Fiona Horsey brings a certain je ne sais quoi to the art of dismembering men that an American virgin just cannot compete with.
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Nice, but not gory enough! by Sexy Bachelor (Singapore)  5 Stars
November 16, 2009
Here's one young woman's natural survival mechanism to male aggression. A victim of environmental pollution or just plain hard luck, this lady sure doesn't need to fear any male assaults in life, but she'll sure feel lonely someday!
No spoilers for you, watch this movie.
The only disappointment for me was that it isn't gory enough for me to classify this as a horror movie.
Does anyone know what the scriptwriters were thinking when they wrote this movie or what the directors had in mind before casting?
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If you like this you should check out by J. Douglas Smith (San Francisco, CA) 3 Stars
September 16, 2009
If you like this movie, you should check out the period. also available on Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Period-Angela-Dix/dp/B000VD5HL8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1253074518&sr=1-1
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It's about Sharrie Heiman, her girlfriend Clitoria and her never ending projectile period, and came out a little before Teeth
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Take A Bite Out Of Crime!!!!! by J. Pemberton (Kingman, Arizona) 5 Stars
September 10, 2009
Excellent Film. Some shock value.
If you have yet to see it, should check it out, even if it's only to say that you watched it. Hope they do a sequel...
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MAN-HATING FLICK PLAIN & SIMPLE by Explorator (Los Angeles, CA)  1 Stars
September 05, 2009
This movie is a feminists wet dream. If you hate men in general you'll love this garbage. This stuff is soooo trendy. They might as well have cut the violence back just a little and it could have been an average Lifetime channel movie. Just to balance things out I'm watching Wolf Creek ;)
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