Review of Teeth (2008) by Aaron O — 07 May 2013

This film doesn't quite know what to be: horror, social satire, erotica, or feminist manifesto. The main character's conflicts as an adolescent girl torn between preserving her virginity and a new crush which awakens her sexuality are quite well written if not all that well portrayed and there is one sequence which is actually quite erotic.

That sequence like the amputations scattered throughout the film as Dawn transforms from preacher on purity to seeking revenge on all males using her vagina as a weapon are quite memorable. The idea promoted that a woman countering male violence against women, or males simply kissing and telling, by meting out violence against horny teenage boys using the most convenient physical weapon she has is rather dubious and ultimately proves the film was written and directed by a man.