"Teeth" was one of the movies listed on the box office door as not for people with delicate sensibilities. OK, that isn't what the sign says, and I don't remember the exact words but that's the gist of it.
It is also a movie that most of the audience seemed to be laughing, but the women laughed more than men. So there's a lot of blood and some disturbing themes (conservative Christianity, literal vagina dentata and penile amputation). It's a funny movie.
Dawn (Jess Weixler) is a beautiful, naive high school girl who speaks on teen celibacy at churches. Her slightly older step-brother, Brad (John Hensley) is about as bad as a bad boy can get, smoking pot and having anal sex (never vaginal) with his girlfriend. Neither he nor Dawn remember just how he lost the tip of his finger when their parents were still dating.
In her fundamentalist run town the sex-ed class can study the anatomy of the penis, but not the vagina. And the discussion of evolution, well that's something else as well, though the teacher is very poised. So Dawn doesn't realize until an unfortunate incident with the new boy in school, that there's something very wrong with her.
I feel like anything I say from here will be complete and utter spoiler, so I'll stop with just a few words more. This movie is bloody, not for the feint of heart and funny in a variety of very wrong ways. If it gets distributed I'll probably see it again - with the girls and may recommend it to a few former boyfriends.
One of the two guys from New York who were sitting next to us said, after the movie was over, "that'd be a great date movie." Yes, it may have been sarcasm, but who can tell. My first reaction was, "a man wrote that?"
Somehow I think this film could become the ultimate realization of girl power.
Oh, and if you think the premise of "Teeth" is something writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein pulled out of the air, do a quick hunt on your favorite search engine for "vagina dentata." You may learn a few things that were skipped over in your world mythology and religion classes.
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