Teeth

What the hell is up with the box quote?
Who compares those two movies? They're in completely different genres!

I know that's gonna be the most talked about thing - and it was the first thing that came to my mind. "Juno?" I think Juno would be tamer than most horror movies.

"Makes Nancy Drew look positively tame by comparison!"

I'm sure it's meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek.

Must be.

This movie looks really interesting, and potentially hilarious. The idea of vagina's with teeth is an old one in surrealism, but I don't think it's ever been explored in the film world (as far as I know) I'm interested in seeing what direction they'll take it in.

It looks like it will be mostly a horror-comedy, but there's potential for some neat statements about our cultures issues with sexuality.

The only thing close I can think of would be that portion in Seven.

Yeah, I'm curious to see how they made a whole movie out of something that could possible have better fit in a horror anthology collection.

The trailer was certainly fairly promising.
Been keeping a cautious eye since the Corner first mentioned it.

There was a german horror movie about living condoms with teeth once.

Killer Condom

EDIT: FYI, it's available through Netflix...

Does...

Does that say "Creative Consultant: H.R.Giger"??


Wow.

Sold!

Vaginas can tehnically grow teeth in real life. Look it up.



On wikipedia.

Also there are killer condom prototypes for women. Anti-rape condoms. Also on wikipedia.

You learn something new every day 'round these parts. . .

Anti-Rape condoms? Jesus. Is a gun not enough?

The way I remember it is the girl wears it like a diaphram inside her vagina, and inside this diaphram are a bunch of hook shaped barbs. If you rape a girl, the barbs hook onto your dick and they're impossible to safely remove unless visiting a hospital, therby providing proof that you raped someone. I don't think these were ever made, but some crazy lady in South Africa patented it and wanted to make a whole line of them. When someone proposed what would happen if some vengeful/psycho girl used them for her own devices, or how flimsy the evidence of having hooks in your cock is, the woman replied "Whatever!"

The Carolina Theatre in Durham is going to start running "Teeth" on April 18th (its on the offical website). I was hoping it was gonna play at the Nevermore Film Festival two months ago, but better late that not at all.

This trailer got one of the best audience reactions I've ever seen. I'm sold on it. It's going to be a shoo-in as a choice for movie night when it comes out.

Precisely what foreplay was invented for. Feel 'er out first.

I kinda like the idea of this, yeah there are logistical problems but rapists getting exactly what they deserve is a pleasing thought.

I think we should just start spreading rumours about it as a nice deterrent for asshole sex offenders. It could work the same way bait cars do for car thieves, but better because it's not just the fear of getting caught, it's the fear of having incredibly painful and mutilating injuries to your ding dong.

Now honestly, how is she going to get a gun in there?

On an old thread about this movie I mentioned some vague childhood memory of a similar scene in a cable horror movie, but can't say for sure whether this "memory" isn't just my brain's way of paging Dr. Freud.

There's always duct tape and string.

Wait, what?

Saw this last night at the Cleveland Cinematheque. It's very fucking funny. Me and the Gf were in tears by the end.

Oh, I was so very, very mislead.

I didn't like this. Thought it had a cool premise, but it didn't do anything with it.

Spoilers- Nearly every guy in the movie tries to rape her, or molest her, I half expected her dad to make a move after the mom died. I thought the fact that they all deserved it to be boring, and a less interesting path to take. At least maybe make the first guy an accident. Then there was all that musing about adaptation, which would be an interesting concept to expand upon, that maybe she developed these teeth in a defense to the misogynistic threats of the world, but then they have a giant nuclear plant sitting in her backyard, and it's really just a freak mutation. Finally the movie just sort of resolves itself with her chomping off her step brother's penis, then she heads off to wander the lonely roads. Like Bruce Banner, but with a shark fanged vagina. Avenging women everywhere.

Once you get passed the shock value, there wasn't much there.

Anyone really like this?

Some details? I'm curious. It's in my Netflix queue.

A lot of my dissatisfaction comes from just what Jack posted above. The director had a good idea, and no idea what to do with it. In fact, that happens all over the movie. He had several nice scenes in his head, but no clue why they would be in the movie. He just unceremoniously drops story threads without ever coming back to them. Every time you think he's building up to saying something, or even just making the story progress, he just leaves that thought by the side of the road. This movie doesn't know why it exists.

What's sad is that the central performance is extremely good. Jess Weixler is making a much better film than the director is, and brings more to it than it deserves. She gamely follows character paths about sexual repression and liberation that ultimately don't go anywhere. It made me hope for better for her in the future.

I can only dream of what Cronenberg would have done with this idea.

Or Takashi Miike.

Or Jodorowsky.

Just about anybody other than this guy, really.

I was actually very amused by this. Dug all the symbolism (cave, movies within the movie, etc) and imagery. Thought the guy who made the bet got kind of a RAW deal, but the brother's comeuppance (as telegraphed as it were) and the dog participation was great.

Maybe she'll meet Logan and make it to Prof X's school in Westchester.

I'm surprised this wasn't more well liked. I thought it was very funny and the gross outs were effective. I watched it with the boyfriend and two friends of ours (a couple). My friend's husband didn't like it, but the other three of us did (and he almost never likes horror so it wasn't that surprising).

Wish I could have seen it in cinemas though, for the audience reaction.

I just love some of the writer's choices...

The brother's vagina-phobia, her sheltered and religious upbringing (as an explanation for her anatomy-ignorance), her teeth as a defense mechanism (and not just an anatomical instrument of horror), etc.

No offense, but if you really thought that this was anywhere in the realm of a good horror movie, you seriously need to raise your standards. It was garbage.

Oh, well you're obviously the expert here. Why don't you tell me what horror movies I should like instead?

Good ones.

I'm disappointed with a majority of new horror films that are hailed as great/the next big things, and would definitely consider myself a discerning fan rather than the type to settle, and I thoroughly enjoyed this. maybe the problem is that it's really just a comedy. and not even an evenly mixed horror comedy, just a comedy. the horror elements were tongue in cheek and almost spoof-like.

This is not a comedy. It just couldn't decide what it wanted to be, so you didn't take it seriously.

I'll admit this wasn't anywhere near a horror classic, but it was inventive enough to be watchable and even enjoyable the first time around.
I have a suspicion any flaws will pop up much more noticeably on a second viewing.
The central performance does go a little way towards saving it, at least.

Which is almost entirely subjective. I thought Teeth was a good one.

I still want to see this one. From everything I've heard I'm not going to take it too seriously.

I'm not sure we were watching the same movie then. But if that's what you guys think I can see why you'd hate this. I think you're way off base, but I can see why you'd hate it.

Well, it isn't scary. Is a comedy that isn't funny defensible as a comedy? I think not.

That aside, it's simply incompetent storytelling. It sets up story elements (the virgin club) that never pay off or resolve. The characters are paper thin, and go nowhere. The idea of nuclear mutation is floated visually, and never explored. The theme of men's fear of female sexual power is ignored in favor of creating a long parade of assholes who deserve to have their dicks bitten off.

In short, it's a film that starts with an interesting scenario, and chooses only to explore the easiest, cheesiest, and most retarded aspects of that scenario. It's a shit screenplay. It's receiving the benefit of the curious tendency of horror fans to cut miles of slack to horror films that they wouldn't cut to anything else.

See this thread.

Thanks, I'm already well aware of that phenomenon, I even alluded to it in my first post. I'm sure there's no point in trying to convince you otherwise but it really doesn't apply to me.

First off, I didn't say I hated it, I said I didn't like it. There's a difference.

You say it's a straight comedy, so tell me where are the jokes that revolve around the vagina dentata, the central premise. The first guy goes psycho and tries to rape her, his dick being severed is completely justified and absent of irony or humor. The doctor removes his glove so that he can skin to skin molest her, but that's not enough so he has to be unnecessarily rough with her before the teeth clench down on his fingers. The guy who made the bet decides to calously parade her new found sexuality and burgeoning sexual confidence to his friend over the phone, for the trivial desire to win a bet. Again, justified, and absent of irony or humor. The brother is an asshole through the entire film, he fucks women in the ass, and doesn't care his step mother is dying. And once again, his dick getting severed is completely justified and absent of any irony or humor. The movie ends, not on a joke, but on the idea that world is full of male perverted assholes, that can't take no for an answer, and that will continue to have their dicks severed justifiably, absent of irony, or humor.

I'm just wondering what scenes you think were played for straight comedy? I'd give you the abstinence only choice being played for laughs, and the dog eating the brother's dick at the end (but even that was more the cherry on the top of his come-uppance).

Certainly there isn't a consistent tone, so I can see how you could decide to treat it all as some giant gag. The movie wants to say something, it just couldnt to decide on what specifically, so it crammed it all until it was feature length, then stopped.

Like every single one you mentioned. Whether or not you find the comedy effective is another matter but I'm surprised that anyone could watch this movie and think it's meant to be taken seriously.