Teeth 2007 Movie -

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| | Details | |------------|--------------| | Title | Teeth | | Director | Mitchell Lichtenstein | | Writer | Mitchell Lichtenstein | | Release Date | January 19, 2007 (Sundance Film Festival); Limited theatrical: April 18, 2008 (US) | | Genre | Horror, Comedy, Satire | | Runtime | 94 minutes | | Country | United States | | Language | English | | Budget | Approximately $2 million | | Box Office | $2.3 million (limited release) |

Lichtenstein, the son of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, uses the premise as an allegory for several issues: teeth 2007 movie

Most body horror films (think The Fly or The Thing ) use mutation as a tragedy. The flips that script. For Dawn, the teeth are not a disease; they are a justice system. In a world where women are constantly told to say "no" but are expected to be polite, Dawn’s body literally enforces her boundaries.

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| Publication | Quote | |-------------|-------| | The New York Times | "A gleefully transgressive feminist fable." | | Variety | "Weixler is a revelation—innocent and fierce." | | Roger Ebert | "A movie that has something serious to say about sexual politics, wrapped in a premise that could easily have been trash." | | The Guardian | "Utterly bizarre, surprisingly smart, and genuinely funny." |

Teeth is widely interpreted as a about sexual assault, bodily autonomy, and female empowerment. The myth of vagina dentata has existed across cultures (e.g., Native American, Hindu, Aboriginal Australian) as a male-castration anxiety fable. Lichtenstein inverts this: instead of a monstrous deformity, Dawn’s condition is a protective adaptation . In a world where women are constantly told

Filmed primarily in the Austin, Texas area. Plot Summary

The film is the most famous modern cinematic exploration of this folk motif, which literally translates to "toothed vagina". Feminist Horror: