Teeth

USA 2007, 90 minutes
Dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Comedy, Horror / Girl-centric, Youth, Black Comedy

Feat. Jess Weixler

Aroview: Squeamishly entertaining horror centred on a sweet high school virgin who discovers she has a set of mutant teeth between her legs, the perfect weapon for scaring off frisky dates!

Laced with sharp, subversive humour and affirmative feminist payback, the film is particularly inspired as a reversal of teen movie promiscuity, in which its adorable, vaginally-enhanced lead grapples with an abstinence pact while simultaneously fighting her own ticklish, sexual awakening (and the lunges of hormonal classmates). Sparingly and hilariously blood-soaked, this inserts a ton of amusing visual gags, bewildered facial expressions, and scumbag male fodder for newcomer Weixler (in a sublime comic turn) to snatch accordingly at.

NZ International Film Festival 2008