Teeth
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- cold
Sombre, kinetic, extreme comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
Our read · Teeth (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal comedy · horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Teeth
What watching it is actually like.
“You want sharp feminist body-horror satire about consent and teenage dread.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if sexual assault, gore, and genital horror will ruin your evening.
The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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