Teeth: 4.0 Stars

Didcot in Oxfordshire is famous for one thing, its power station.  Its physical presence transforms the entire Vale of Oxford, whilst its six towers are visible from nearly the entire length of the Ridgeway; and probably from just about every other point in the universe too.  This film starts with (and features from time to time) a view of two cooling towers that look exactly like the ones in Didcot. There’s no totally explicit connection made between them and the film’s main character, Dawn, but as a guy who’s (as everyone knows) a bit of a sexual Adonis on the side, I’m going to be giving the ladies from there plenty of space in future.

2007  –  Certificate: 18  –  USA

Rating Details:  Very strong sexualised gore

Despite its leg-crossing plot, this is a pretty good comedy horror.  It’s really a coming-of-age comedy, with some ‘weird stuff’ added into the mix.  The story is a bit, em, different and for a film of this kind contains quite a few interesting ‘social commentaries’; if you took all the latter out of the film and analysed them, you’d probably come to the conclusion that we’re living in a pretty fucked-up world.  (Oh yes, I forgot, we are.)  The acting’s decent, it looks good and the funny bits are, by and large, funny.  It’s just crying out for a sequel though.  I thought Jess Weixler did a good job of playing Dawn, the character with the ‘special powers’.  Kudos to the make-up people as well, as they managed to make her look gorgeous in some scenes and a bit of a mess in others.

Recommended for dentists who’re considering expanding their work into gynaecology.  (That’s probably not a large number.)

No cats and no decapitations.  (It does however, feature examples of something altogether far, far worse than simply having your head cut off.)

Top Badass moment?  I guess it has to be Dawn dealing with her “unique selling point”.  She goes from prissy good girl to proto bad-bitch-from-hell in 90 minutes.  A new type of superhero for the 21^st Century!

Teeth at IMDB