Teeth | 
| Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Actors: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny Von Dohlen
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: Movie
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 9098
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 94 Minutes
ASIN: B001AQD03W
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 2007
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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| Synopsis:
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made 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. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 48 more reviews...
 ROFLMFAOPMP@Vagina Dentata November 17, 2008
Turtles All The Way Down™ (New York, NY)
Absolutely excellent independent horror dark comedy!
It was much better than I had expected (I was expecting a low budget campy flick) and was actually quite hilarious
The story is about a teenage girl who is totally into purity and remaining abstinate and even promotes a club called *Promise* for preteens in which kids pledge their premarital abstinence by wearing a ring. Early in the film, she meets a young man in the Promise Club who fires up her dormant libido and gets her thinking some impure thoughts. What ensues gets ugly when the two end up at a lake. In this scene, the young man's libido takes over and the real reason for Dawn's abstinence becomes apparent; she has a set of shark-like teeth hidden in her vagina which engage any time she's being mistreated, chopping off certain male appendages. She eventually turns the deformity to her advantage and uses it throughout the film to get her revenge on all the males who disrespect her.
The film never crosses over into gritty exploitation but is definitely not for everyone.
A+++++++++
 OOH, I wish I had that power! November 17, 2008
Geri (Henderson, Nevada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been hearing so much about this wild, cult-like film for a while. My Amazon buddies Blackshere, Puzzlebox, Jenny and Tantrum raved about it and enticed me to watch it. Wow, I'm glad they did!
I wouldn't call this a horror film (except if you're a guy) but a kind of weird comedy with a twist.
What a concept---a girl that has teeth down below! Dawn, a prim virgin high school girl, knows she is different, because she has vagina dentata. At first she doesn't know how to control it, but she soon perfects her wonderful gift. Dawn then uses her magic powers to hurt the men who hurt her. This gets good!
I know a lot of us women would like this power!
This movie was fairly well filmed and never got boring. There were a few good comic scenes---like what a Rotweiller won't eat and a real dirty old man.
All in all it's a fun film to watch. Grab some popcorn, no hot dogs this time!
um... November 8, 2008
*Maureen* (West Haven, CT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this movie was out there which i believe is the reason i liked it. a vagina with teeth out to get all the men that wrong her. theres moments where your thinking they wont show that but yep then they do. to me its an outlandish idea that seems to work. i esp. like the ending which to me does justice for the film although you can kinda see it coming to that.
 Psuedo-porn and no real horror September 14, 2008
J. Martin (Toledo, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this used from a local store after finding out it wasn't available to rent. The story line sounded interesting. It turns out to be almost rookie-level filming, thin story line, vague insinuations (like them living near a prominently shown nuclear power plant), and then the obligatory boob shot of a teenager. Almost as scary as an infomercial, I'm glad I only spent $5.
Verry good film... from a bold concept. September 11, 2008
Paulo Leite (Lisbon, Portugal)
Finally someone got the courage to make a film about such an unusual subject: a girl with a toothed vagina. And interestingly enough, almost everything on this movie seems to click.
Dawn is a girl living in a small town (close to a nuclear power plant). She is a virgin and just met this guy who seems perfect. Until one day he tries to rape her and... Terrified with the episode, Dawn goes to a gynecologist who feels she is just an ignorant teenager and decides to abuse her. Bad move. As Dawn learns more and more about herself and her sexuality, she discovers she is unique... and no one will take advantage of her.
The screenplay is beautifully written and the acting is superb. Every character here shows a superior casting work.
But the most interesting element in this film is the clear critique to the blind puritanism and ignorance found in some parts of America. It is not by mere chance that Dawn belongs to those movements who advocate celibacy (using a red ring on her finger)... or that a simple model of the female reproductive system on a school book is covered by a large sticker by determination of the school board... or that some students mock the example of evolutionism given by the teacher...
So Dawn goes from incident to incident while trying to understand herself and her sexuality... until she fully realizes all the idiocy and hypocrisy of world full of people who are even freakier than her.
A truly unique film with a beautiful message.
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