TEETH (2007)
OVERVIEW:
Teeth is about a teenage girl called Dawn who is a virgin and discovers she has a mutation in her vagina which causes it to grow teeth. She is her school's spokesperson for the chastity group and lives with her step parents and psychotic stepbrother who along with the majority of the men in the movie want nothing more than to nail this nubile chick. Well I think you know enough now.
SPOILERS ALERT
Does anyone think that making a movie about a man with a penis that shoots acid into the vaginas of bitchy or skanky women is funny? God diggers perhaps. The bros on some of the forums came up with some very novel scenarios. One anonymous reckoned a movie should be made about a man whose dick releases molten lead into the mouth of gold diggers. Alas the title name Iron Man is taken. Acid Head was an amusing one too. Oh and the one about the comedy with an evil space alien that looks like a male human and has a member that works like a flamethrower when he wants it to. How would the feminists react to the scenes where he screws some earth babe and because he thinks its amusing, blasts her twat with flames. Or her ass or mouth or whatever. Would they laugh at the "dark comedy" like they would at the scenes in Teeth? Well equality appears to be going down a oneway street with women's name on it here.
If you want one indication that our society suffers from a highly concentrated abundance of sick perverted women and manginas then you really need not look any further. You may have noticed that over the years Western women have become obsessed with this disgusting and bloody evil fascination with the idea of male castration. The severing of the penis and or testicles. The woman who finds these connotations of violence as disgusting as those who opposed the Klu Klux Klan do are the exception it would seem. Most Western women (W/W), our mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and whatever will laugh at the idea of their fellow human beings suffering a fate which in all brutal honesty is a degree of atrocity above rape.
I think that there are many messages in all films regardless of how hard the director tries to hide it but there is always one core idea which is going through his or her mind. Teeth is about emasculation. It uses the absolutely most violent physical act of misandry to do this. And it is a reflection of the women of this society's hatred of the male gender. And the poor mangina who made this movie not only knew this but wanted to exploit it to appeal to women.
You may or may not sense my helplessness in trying to explain how angry all this nonsense is making me. In answer to my question: Would the destruction of women's breasts or genitals for the purpose of public amusement ever be accepted to the point where comedy/horror movies are made about it? Well I think thats a rhetorical question. Don't you? Violence against women is never acceptable. If a man ever commits it for whatever reason and whatever intensity it is always done in such a way that puts shame on the man. Even then feminists will scream misogyny, even when in the vast majority of those cases, some pussy-whipped machismo Captain-Save-A-Ho gallops in to her rescue.
In this "Cautionary tale for men" virtually all the male characters were shown to be immoral or evil on some level with the only two exceptions (the father and some male friend of a male character) being static characters. The female victim/heroine lead, Dawn (portrayed by Jess Weixler who has no shame) is a hardcore advocate of abstinance and preaches to little kids that sex is wrong before marriage. One of the messages of the movie, apparantly, is the defiance of the ideal of abstinance funnily enough. The vagina is scraped out in the sex education textbook indicating what I understood to be 1950s America where values are shall we say, different to what they are now?
Nice guys as usual are demonised in a way the classic bad boys women go for in real life never have. Some fellow abstinance nerd becomes insane with lust and tries to rape Dawn and we are treated to a horrifying image of his severed penis on the ground and the stump in his groin where it once was. A lecherous gynecologist gets his hand torn off and another geeky boyfriend who turns out to be a wanker who bet on the vagina dentata infected woman breaking her abstinence pledges gets his gory 'comeuppance'. A considerably more gory and shocking display of violated male genitals and a chorus of female giggling in the theatre followed.
The worst part was the psychotic half brother who wants nothing more than to screw Dawn and at the start of the movie even young boys aren't free from negative stereotyping of males as perverted monsters when the two siblings are children and the brother wants to see her genitals only to get bitten. Later when Dawn chews off his rocket near the end of the film, the brother's pet rotweiller snacks on it. Just about every age group of males has been demonised by this point and at the end Dawn now turns into a man-hating serial rapist as it implies with her coy smirk that she intends to maul some lecherous old man who locks her in his car.
Its blatantly honest that Teeth is pro-feminist with all this talk of 'male fear' of female sexuality through the ancient fear of vagina dentata (Latin for toothed vagina). The female victim is also a heroine who uses her vagina to dominate the penis when the usual idea is that men are stronger than women etc. Some highly twisted and misandric version of the Adam vs. Lillith story and women winning the battle of the sexes. Disgusting. It sounds like I am overanalysing the movie too much but that is what must be done when trying to underline the motive of such an anti-male and sick form of 'entertainment.' Who knows? Maybe the day men stop killing men who rape women comes women really will become 'empowered' and start raping men with their vagina dentata! Incidently there was a lot of talk of selling out spiked walls for women's vaginas in South Africa. But seriously - do you think a man will just run around screaming after you have 'defended yourself' from him? No he is probably going to try and kill you.
Many films which one associates with potential misandry at first thought include The Pianist on the the lighter extreme and Hard Candy on the stronger but this film alone undisputably ranks as one of the most misandric, anti-male films ever created and this is shown with such little subtlety that it is hard to imagine anyone missing it. You'd be surprised of course.
Apparantly many reviews not only in most magazines but also IMDB don't think so. The ones who rated this movie most highly appear to be under 18 females. Shock shock horror horror! Let's see what Digitalspy had to say for instance:
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein Time: 93 mins Certificate: 18
As the living embodiment of the vagina dentata myth, it was inevitable that Teeth's protagonist Dawn (Jess Weixler), a chipper high school chastity group leader, wouldn't remain abstinent for very long. As she embarks on a blossoming romance with new boy Tobey (Hale Appleman), her initial resistance becomes a source of frustration to him. It is in a secluded cave - where Tobey decides to force himself on Dawn - that the film's titular teeth take their first horrific bite.
From then we follow the sexually-awakened lead character as she encounters a series of unpleasant men who try to take advantage of her apparent naivety. Dawn's creepy gynecologist (Josh Pais), nerdy classmate Ryan (Ashley Simpson) and even stepbrother Brad - a memorable, scenery-chewing performance from John Hensley - are all destined for a comeuppance.
Squirm inducing and hilarious in equal measure, Teeth may carry a bizarre premise but, like all good B-movies should, it successfully pushes the boundaries of acceptable taste. Working on multiple levels, Teeth ticks boxes as a '50s, Roger Corman-style exploitation throwback, an unnerving psychological horror and a satire on middle-American values.
The film has been floating around in UK release limbo for some time (perhaps in part due to uncertainty on how to best market it) after initially making waves at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. Its trailers pitch it as a teen horror film, however it operates more potently as a dark comedy. Granted its humour is about as jet-black as you can get, but it fits more aptly into that genre than any other.
At times it's as traumatic a watch for male viewers as 2005's Hard Candy, yet sets itself apart from David Slade's film by being less direct, that little bit more playful. Knowing full well that his story strains plausibility, writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein's script is self-aware, offering knowing winks to the audiences and diffusing gruesome lacerations with humour ("I'm not going to bit ya!" remarks the doomed gynecologist Dr. Godfrey.)
Leading lady Jess Weixler gives a standout turn as Dawn, capably taking the character from do-gooder to deadly Lolita. It's the kind of performance she may have trouble shaking off but one that has no doubt opened a lot of doors for her.
Teeth is an impressive first feature from actor-turned-filmmaker Lichtenstein. As the son of legendary pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, it's a little disappointing that he utilises such a drab colour palette. Though his opening Hitchcock-evoking scene - an establishing pan across the suburban setting for the story, accompanied by dramatic Bernard Hermann-like strings - shows that he's inherited his father's knack for image composition.
A lack of visual dynamism is a minor quibble considering how enjoyable the rest of the film is - yet Teeth shot with the urgency and vigour that Sam Raimi injected into his Evil Dead series could have made it even better.
Nevertheless, the film is smartly written, inventive and wickedly funny.
Wrapping men's intimacy anxieties around a girl empowerment parable, Teeth is full of surprises, cunningly flipping genre stereotypes and defying expectations. While probably too lurid and graphic for the mainstream's tastes, it's one of those films that has a genuine shot at acquiring cult classic status.
That is basically what your country thinks of you as a man. The demonisation of men in Teeth will only amplify the damage done the relationships between men and women - nice or bad boys. It speaks for itself. Its almost counter-intuitive. You'd think women would go for nice guys because the bad boys are more or less garuanteed to be creeps when of course we know why they go for them in reality. Teeth seems to show exactly what women collectively think of nice guys. Well at least one good message of this movie is not to be a niceguy! Either way this movie will be used against women in the future.
Rated R for disturbing sequences involving sexuality and violence, language and some drug use.Runtime:88 minIMDB1/4
