A horrorflick... that'll really scare men.

RTTingle · January 18, 2008, 05:47:36 PM

I warn ya guys...

http://www.teethmovie.com/trailer.html

...this isn't easy to sit through.

RTT

captainspud · January 18, 2008, 05:59:38 PM

I can't believe they made a movie around that stupid joke.

Protomorph · January 18, 2008, 08:51:50 PM

w o w :o

that's reallllly messed up.

detourne_me · January 18, 2008, 09:18:11 PM

cool. i'm interested to see this. I'm guessing by all the sundance awards and stuff it will be a lot better than the summer scream flick the trailer is making it out to be. I'm hoping that she goes on some sort of revengeful power trip after realizing what she's got. this could be a pretty deep movie actually, since vagina dentata is a centuries old concept that has shaped many notions in the way women have been treated over time. but i am being pretty hopeful too. maybe i should just watch the little shop of horrors.

BWPS · January 18, 2008, 10:57:59 PM

Should be called "Teethgina".

TheMarvell · January 19, 2008, 12:07:09 AM

lol, nasty...

thanoson · January 19, 2008, 12:47:04 AM

yep

the_ultimate_evil · January 19, 2008, 06:24:55 AM

i knew about this and it really is disturbing, whats weird is it's getting great reviews

lugaru · January 19, 2008, 06:38:40 AM

It looks like one of my favorite movies... Ginger Snaps. In other words campy, gory and full of coming of age metaphor. I'll give it a shot...

Outcast · January 19, 2008, 06:46:42 AM

Wow! Never thought a horror flick could be based on that. Kinda original when you think about it. :P

Really curious to find out what's wrong with the girl, and what's the real force/horror behind it. :wacko:

ow_tiobe_sb · January 20, 2008, 08:56:26 AM

I very much hope that detourne_me is correct in that there could be a social critique buried in this film, but I fear that the film might simply revisit old male paranoias in a tasteless, crock-shock fashion. The trailer alone gives me no reason to suspect this film will be anything other than the ridiculous cautionary tale and female genitalia fear-fest it appears to be. One thing is certain: my better half would never let my curiosity and occasional departure from misanthropy to draw me into a theatre showing this film.

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RTTingle · January 20, 2008, 09:04:45 AM

From what I've read, the main character does go through the initial phase of fear and eventually becomes empowered by it.

Funny enough, Hollywood did do something like this sometime back, but it wasn't a movie unto itself. It was part of an anthology of Wild West horror stories. A lone pregnant woman on the plains gets assistance from the Cowboys that run into her and help her along the way. Of course... for the cowpokes (I'm so sorry - the pun was fighting to get out) that can't help but keep their branding irons to themselves --- we finally find out that lump in her belly isn't from being with bun in oven.

In reality, a woman being defiled (I cant use the "R" word? Unreal...) is a huge problem in Africa. To the point where one person invented a condom with inverted needles. http://www.rapestop.net/index.asp Imagine something like that being abused by a woman?

Sure, the movie sounds like a silly joke - but like pointed out, its based in some interesting myth and folklore. Not only that, But Hollywood seems to be getting more interesting with movies like this - tables turned on men, and getting a bit deeper than the stuff we were presented with in Fatal Attraction. Good example of recent is the movie Hard Candy... about a teen girl who turns the tables on a pedophile.

At first it does sound silly, and kind of vulgar --- but then, lets think of the acts of sexual aggression towards woman that causes these feelings. We can have numerous discussions about the attitudes about women who are sexually aggressive and how thats been portrayed in movies. Want to make things more interesting, you can even discuss the whole pleasure/pain bit. The movie seems to explore what happens when the roles get reversed. Creepy and childish, perhaps? But I'll see this move any day over of the rash of torture porn horror flicks they have out in theaters and DVD lately.

I'm definately curious enough to see it.

RTT

Silver Shocker · January 20, 2008, 09:07:16 AM

Wow, I have heard about this, but....a movie? Is this really the kind of thing? You know what, I'm probably not the target audience, but there's probably people who think this is a great idea for a film. It just seems like such a strange out there idea.

stumpy · January 20, 2008, 12:04:40 PM

This is looks very wait-and-see thus far. There was nothing in the trailer that made the film look interesting to me. Maybe they have a clever take on something in it that would be surprising and original, but if it's just the eponymous plot device, then that just sounds gory, and frankly boring. Not that there couldn't be more, of course, but I didn't see any hint of it.

(Of course, I didn't think Hard Candy was really a great movie, either. I understand that a certain level of contrivance is part of a movie, but it really seemed like an awful lot of unlikely things had come together for that story work out. I enjoyed The Brave One more as far as vengeance fantasy pix go.)

Mr. Hamrick · January 20, 2008, 01:42:55 PM

Quote from: stumpy on January 20, 2008, 12:04:40 PM
This is looks very wait-and-see thus far. There was nothing in the trailer that made the film look interesting to me. Maybe they have a clever take on something in it that would be surprising and original, but if it's just the eponymous plot device, then that just sounds gory, and frankly boring. Not that there couldn't be more, of course, but I didn't see any hint of it.

(Of course, I didn't think Hard Candy was really a great movie, either. I understand that a certain level of contrivance is part of a movie, but it really seemed like an awful lot of unlikely things had come together for that story work out. I enjoyed The Brave One more as far as vengeance fantasy pix go.)

Hard Candy wasn't a bad movie but wasn't a great movie either. You liked The Brave One?? :o :o

stumpy · January 20, 2008, 03:39:21 PM

It was okay, but what I said was that I liked it more than Hard Candy. [spoiler]The ending of The Brave One was something of a cop-out, but the performances by Foster and Howard were very good, IMO.[/spoiler]

MJB · January 21, 2008, 01:56:49 AM

I found the trailer to be uninteresting and boring.

-MJB

El Condor · January 21, 2008, 11:38:57 AM

The idea does have metaphoric possibilities, but I agree with ow_tiobe_sb that it appears as though the movie will just resort to titillating it's lowest-common-denominator audience and skip the social commentary (or merely pay lip-service to it). I'd be interested to hear from anyone who goes to see it, though.

EC