I did mention redeeming qualities. Weixler is excellent as the lead – beautiful, innocent, wide-eyed, and fully committed to the role. She also proves herself to be a skilled comedienne in the two moments I found funny; once in her reaction shot after one of her cleavings, and another at a fateful trip to the gynecologist. (Throughout the film, there’s also a myriad of sexual imagery, both phallic and vaginal, that is unintentionally funny in its obviousness.)

Sometimes a movie tries to be so audacious that we can’t help but admire its spirit, despite how grossed-out or disturbed we might be. But Teeth is just plain executed badly. And let’s be honest here, the 51-year-old male writer is clearly getting off on his story about a 16-year-old good girl turned sexual deviant who dominates whiny teenage boys.

Movie Grade: C

Synopsis:

High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.