Product 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).System Requirements:Running Time: 94 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/PSYCHOLOGICAL Rating: R UPC: 796019811750 Manufacturer No: 81175

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2755 in DVD
• Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.com
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

A Satire with Real "Teeth" to it
Michael Lichtenstein`s "Teeth" is a pitch-dark feminist satire guaranteed to have the men in the audience squirming in their seats and crossing their legs in self-defense - while the women squeal in "you-go-girl!" solidarity with the heroine. With an envelope-pushing tone reminiscent of the early works of John Waters, "Teeth" pulls out all the Freudian stops in its story of an attractive young abstinence-only advocate named Dawn (Jess Weixler) who, as the result of a mutation in her DNA, has developed a set of razor-sharp teeth in her private area - a condition known in ancient mythology as "Vagina Dentata." At first she is freaked out by the discovery, until she learns that she can turn this bizarre anatomical anomaly into a weapon against any man who fails to respect her for the lady she is.

With ironic detachment and outlandish humor, "Teeth" acknowledges that, in the depths of our collective subconscious, we have been conditioned to link sexual behavior with danger, mutilation and even death. Further, we have been taught to view women as somehow posing a threat to men's continued virility and survival. From the black widow spider to the archetypal figures like Pandora, Eve, the sirens and Medusa who inhabit our literature, females are frequently portrayed as irresistible creatures luring unsuspecting men to their doom (the death can be either literal or metaphoric). "Teeth," in all its shocking outrageousness, simply finds the most graphic way imaginable of illustrating that theme.

The movie takes place in one of those stifling suburban settings where vice, corruption and perversion always seem to be simmering just beneath the surface of tree-lined streets and perfectly manicured lawns - only in this film, the real threat is hidden not in the environment but within the human body itself (unless one counts the industrial smokestacks we see lurking in the background, pumping out a constant cloud of toxic chemicals, enough to give anyone`s DNA a mutation or two).

Dawn could have been portrayed from the start as a calculating shrew intent on emasculating every man in sight out of her own twisted sense of divine righteousness. Instead, Lichtenstein and Weixler bring a perplexed poignancy to the character, starting her off as a confused kid coming to terms with just what this will mean for her as she makes her way through life. It isn't until she flashes a final subversive smile at the camera as she heads on to her newest deserving victim that we sense that her transformation into a globe-trotting warrior for her gender is finally complete.

"Teeth" is definitely for those with an appreciation for the freaky and far-out. But be prepared to cringe.

The Worst kinda Fly-Trap
A horror/black comedy about .....
well, it's about......um.....this girl
and her bajingo has .....well the title of the movie is "teeth"...
so, uh ya know.
LOL!!
The whimsical story strolls along at a casual pace,
the gore scenes are few & far between,
but the occasional awkward laugh more than makes up for that.
(I mean how many mutilated johnson's would you want to see anyhow?)
The musical scores are excellent,
something that seemed odd for this kind of flick.
and the characters were all amazingly exaggerated
(every guy in this flick is a total slime-ball)

The story takes place in middle-class suburbia,
with 2 nuclear power plants looming in the background.
The main character is a virgin, who's a member of a high-school abstinence (sp?) club,
who finds her hormones racing, and her... ya know.... clamping down on any...ya knows.... that might try to invade her innocence.
To sum up:
Sometimes funny, sometimes gorey,
whimsical black-comedy/horror flick about the dangers of men,
and the perfect means to eliminate rape, & slime-balls altogether.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Safe-sex means condoms made of steel.

Vagina Dentata...hilarious
This movie was funny but i am definitely more into horror...so this movie would have been 10 times better if it went more the serious route instead of comedy.