Teeth is an independent black comedy movie that is best remembered for spawning something of a mini meme.
It is a movie about a young, abstinent girl called Dawn who, for some odd reason - perhaps nuclear mutations, physical illness, or an evolutionary throwback - gets a superpower as her puberty approaches her.
That superpower is a toothed vagina.
I know what you're thinking: "Is this on Netflix?". Yes. Yes it is.
The movie begins with Dawn and her stepbrother Brad playing in the pool as children. Then Brad gets a really nasty wound on his finger. And then I don't need to finish this sentence for you to get it.
Zoom a few years: Dawn is an intelligent woman studying in school, Brad is a sad junkie with a violent dog, Dawn's mother suffers from mental breakdowns and temporary catatonic states on the fly, and Dawn's step-dad is the only character in this movie not to do something horrible to anyone else.
Dawn finds comfort in abstinence, and preaches it to some kids. Then she gets a love interest. Then he date rapes her, except she accidentally bites his penis off (yes, that sentence has just been said) and kills him.
And then the rest of the movie is kind of like a snuff film. Her creepy stepbrother, this one nice guy who was actually taking advantage of her, her previously mentioned love interest, a doctor, an old guy, and, like, three other guys, all try to rape her, and all end up with bodily harm.
This is a very entertaining movie. It's also worth comparing it to Silent Hill, no doubt an influence.
The Japanese games have always had sexual undertones. Not with characters, but with the monsters. In Silent Hill 2, James is a guy who does everything right, but he's incredibly sexually and emotionally frustrated (he's a nice guy, really), Heather is scared shit less of sex, pregnancy, romance, and may have an eating disorder. And Silent Hill 4 is just fucked up; most of the women you meet are motherly and attractive, and all end up with horrible deaths and terrible injuries.
However, the player has always been a tiny entity at the mercy of the town's sexual, horrific and deviant nature, making it something of an allegory to rape and depression, and how only pushing on and fighting ever makes it out of that cycle.
However, in Teeth, the main character is a sexual-sort-of-by-choice psychotic mutant who eventually finds it fun to bite men's penises off because yolo. The film only has that subtext between characters, and it ends up becoming almost satisfying to watch them get snuffed off one by one, because by the time to get to the third bitening (that's what I'm calling them now) you want every character to die except for Dawn's dad because everyone is a huge asshole.
This, interestingly, makes it a complete reverse of Silent Hill, which has interesting results.
Teeth is a bad movie: even the very concept of bad. If it was a movie about a man who kept getting unwanted sex and his penis leaked high PH alkaline or something else that could potentially kill someone if it got into a vulnerable and nerve-filled place like a vagina, there'd be outcries, rage and screams of "MISOGYNIST!".
But you should still watch Teeth. Because of its premise.
It is a movie about a young, abstinent girl called Dawn who, for some odd reason - perhaps nuclear mutations, physical illness, or an evolutionary throwback - gets a superpower as her puberty approaches her.
That superpower is a toothed vagina.
I know what you're thinking: "Is this on Netflix?". Yes. Yes it is.
The movie begins with Dawn and her stepbrother Brad playing in the pool as children. Then Brad gets a really nasty wound on his finger. And then I don't need to finish this sentence for you to get it.
Zoom a few years: Dawn is an intelligent woman studying in school, Brad is a sad junkie with a violent dog, Dawn's mother suffers from mental breakdowns and temporary catatonic states on the fly, and Dawn's step-dad is the only character in this movie not to do something horrible to anyone else.
Dawn finds comfort in abstinence, and preaches it to some kids. Then she gets a love interest. Then he date rapes her, except she accidentally bites his penis off (yes, that sentence has just been said) and kills him.
And then the rest of the movie is kind of like a snuff film. Her creepy stepbrother, this one nice guy who was actually taking advantage of her, her previously mentioned love interest, a doctor, an old guy, and, like, three other guys, all try to rape her, and all end up with bodily harm.
This is a very entertaining movie. It's also worth comparing it to Silent Hill, no doubt an influence.
The Japanese games have always had sexual undertones. Not with characters, but with the monsters. In Silent Hill 2, James is a guy who does everything right, but he's incredibly sexually and emotionally frustrated (he's a nice guy, really), Heather is scared shit less of sex, pregnancy, romance, and may have an eating disorder. And Silent Hill 4 is just fucked up; most of the women you meet are motherly and attractive, and all end up with horrible deaths and terrible injuries.
However, the player has always been a tiny entity at the mercy of the town's sexual, horrific and deviant nature, making it something of an allegory to rape and depression, and how only pushing on and fighting ever makes it out of that cycle.
However, in Teeth, the main character is a sexual-sort-of-by-choice psychotic mutant who eventually finds it fun to bite men's penises off because yolo. The film only has that subtext between characters, and it ends up becoming almost satisfying to watch them get snuffed off one by one, because by the time to get to the third bitening (that's what I'm calling them now) you want every character to die except for Dawn's dad because everyone is a huge asshole.
This, interestingly, makes it a complete reverse of Silent Hill, which has interesting results.
Teeth is a bad movie: even the very concept of bad. If it was a movie about a man who kept getting unwanted sex and his penis leaked high PH alkaline or something else that could potentially kill someone if it got into a vulnerable and nerve-filled place like a vagina, there'd be outcries, rage and screams of "MISOGYNIST!".
But you should still watch Teeth. Because of its premise.