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Take a Bite Out of Teeth

posted by Landon Cassman at 4:37 pm.

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Hey all. Welcome back on campus. It’s been awhile since we last saw each other.  Since my last post, I’ve seen a handful of interesting and unusual indie movies worth writing about.  But one that sticks out the most in my head is one that I watched just a couple days ago.  From the producers of the Saw franchise, Twisted Pictures comes a film from 2007 called Teeth.

Having seen all of the Saw movies, I was pretty much expecting a gruesome and exceedingly violent movie filmed with blood and little plot.  Though there are cringe worthy moments in this film, they don’t appear until the second half.  The film follows the story of one girl named Dawn O’Keefe, a girl growing up with a slightly unusual genetic mutation. I don’t want to explain it too much in detail for fear of upsetting the weak stomached readers, but let’s just say this girl possessed a dangerous set of fangs in her most private of areas.  As she grows up, she goes into high school thinking that this is not unusual for a girl to have, and that the monster down under will leave once she finds a man to settle down with and start a family.  So she preaches the ways of abstinence to kids no older than the fifth grade.  After she is forced into breaking her vow of chastity, everything falls apart in the second act of this girl’s drama.

I enjoyed this film immensely. Unlike the other films that Twisted Pictures has produced, this one actually holds a semblance of heart in its story.  Instead of showing gruesome images at all times, this film is based upon the anticipation that someone like Dawn will eventually unleash the beast within her, but the question is always when.  Dawn is a girl that one can’t help but feel sorry for at first.  She’s experiencing something that no other girls her age have had to deal with, and she has no idea she’s even different.  Her disability leads to ridicule by her fellow classmates, and there’s just not much she can do about it.  This film is good if you’re looking for a different take on the outcast high school student plot, or if you just want to see some outrageous scenes you’ll never find anywhere else in your movie-viewing career.

Landon Cassman: Through boredom and pure enjoyment I find myself always involved in either film or music related endeavors. This is one of them.