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Teeth
The American horror comedy follows a high school student who is a member of a chastity club in a ploy to suppress her budding sexuality, but nature took its hold on her and she discovers she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
26 September 1983, Austin, Texas, USA
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
22 December 1958, Augusta, Georgia, USA
29 August 1977, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
October 14, 2012
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.April 28, 2011
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.March 28, 2008
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.January 21, 2009
Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's low-budget horror film is...more satirical than scary...however, he ultimately delivers the gory goods.March 27, 2008
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 compNovember 17, 2011
I'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly.March 06, 2008
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.March 27, 2008
Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic.July 14, 2011
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.September 02, 2008
Teeth is a unique hybrid of black comedy and horror movie send-up that is great good fun.November 24, 2011
As amateurishly made as it is, Teeth runs on a kind of angry distrust toward boys.April 04, 2011
It's like a punch in the face.