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Teeth (I) (2007) 5.5
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5.5/10 from 29,973 users
Metascore: 57/100
Reviews: 158 user | 203 critic | 22 from Metacritic.com Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence. Director:Mitchell LichtensteinWriter:Mitchell Lichtenstein |
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Dawn grows up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. In high school, while her biology class studies evolution, she realizes she may have a hidden curse, an "adaptation." She lives with her mom, step-father, and hard-edged step-brother. She likes Tobey, a guy at school, and he likes her. She takes a pledge to remain chaste until marriage, so they date in groups, watch G-rated films, and don't kiss, but the power of teen hormones is great, so temptation beckons. Dawn has an admirer in Ryan, and when when things have an unexpected twist with Tobey, she turns to Ryan for help. Will he be her mythical hero and rescue her? Or can she find her way as her own hero, turning the curse into an asset? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
3 April 2008 (Singapore) See more »Also Known As:
Dagose me See more »Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USABox Office
Opening Weekend:
£235,658 (UK) (20 June 2008)Gross:
$347,578 (USA) (6 March 2009)Company Credits
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Performed & Composed by Linda Martinez
Courtesy of 5 Alarm Music
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During the filming of the first scene, many of the neighbors were protesting the film because they believed it to be a pornographic film. See more »Goofs
Dawn O'Keefe has brown eyes as a child in the first scene, but has blue eyes in the rest of the movie. However, 10 - 15% of Caucasian people experience some eye color change. It is not unlikely for a child's eye color to change from brown to blue. See more »Crazy Credits
No man was harmed in the making of this film. See more »Soundtracks
Cartoon Cat and MousePerformed & Composed by Linda Martinez
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Who says vagina dentata isn't an interesting subject?
Teeth is a horror comedy about the myth of vaginal "teeth". Theatrical trailers said that it made men squeal - a similar way Fatal Attraction 20 years ago was received. It's great to see a horror movie this brilliant at the same time funny and gross.
Three penises and four fingers were cut in the story but it was clear in the film that no man was harmed in the making of the movie. I like Teeth not because of those cutting-edge (hahaha) scenes but because it's a movie that made men check out their wives, mistresses and girlfriends and see if they have teeth in their vaginas. It's good to see an original intelligent horror movie made at the time where stupid remakes and gornography destroy the entire horror genre.
I like the horrifyingly funny script (Tobey's sexually frustrated declaration "I HAVEN'T EVEN JERKED OFF SINCE EASTER!" was a real teenage example of reasons to have sex) and the simple but unique direction by Lichtenstein.
Teeth isn't as serious as the screamer Fatal Attraction but it does manage to scare men... leave them jerking off rather than having sex. But maybe Teeth is also a gory example of STDs and AIDS.
A horror film that can cut right through you!