We’re all for surreal, disturbing horror movies. And we’re big fans of splattery gore (as any of our Movies For Metalheads columns will attest). But we’re wondering if the creators of the new flick “Teeth” (which opened in New York and Los Angeles January 18) might have gone too far. We haven’t seen the movie or anything, so we can’t judge how, err, tasteful it is, but the plot gives us the willies — and gives our willie the heebie-jeebies.
Basically, the film is a horror/comedy about a girl who discovers she has teeth in her genitals (which plays off the whole Vagina Dentata myth about the female crotch as castration device). Apparently, after suffering through an episode of sexual abuse, she learns to use her hidden chompers to her benefit and seeks revenge against seedy men by emasculating them with her nether regions.
The movie, directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, features five songs by unsigned Fort Collins, Colorado extreme metal band Immortal Dominion. “The stepbrother [in the movie] is always in his room blasting our music on his stereo, so we are in the movie, like, eight times,” said the band on its MySpace.
Now, we’re all for metal bands getting more play in Hollywood, but we’d love to be a fly on the wall a year from now, when one of the members’ aunts asks, “Oh, what movie was your band in,” and the dude has to say, “‘Teeth,’ you know, the one about the girl with the sharp teeth in her hoo-ha.”
Well, it beats being in “Scary Movie XXVI”… maybe.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Q&A with “Teeth” writer/director Mitchell Lichenstein and producer Joyce Pierpoline!
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