History Film / Teeth

* TooDumbToLive: The badly traumatized Dawn runs to her friend Ryan for help and claims to have killed a guy. While calming her down, he manages to talk her into having sex with him. The next day, while having another round in the sack with her, he lets slip that he's been playing for her all along and she's just another lay for him. Furious at this betrayal, she bites off his penis. While his skepticism toward her claim of having a VaginaDentata is rather understandable under the circumstances, angering a girl who's visibly upset over a credible claim she's making that she just killed someone is ''never'' a good idea.

* ILoveNuclearPower: It's [[{{SarcasmMode}} subtly]] implied Dawn's "power" is a side-effect of living next door to a nuclear power plant. Dawn's mother's illness is implied to have something to do with this too.

* DoubleStandard: Pointed out by Dawn's classmates on why their anatomy textbook shows the male reproductive organ in all its glorious detail while censoring the picture of the female one. Dawn answers that it's because "Women have decorum and modesty."

* DisproportionateRetribution: Ryan certainly is a jackass, but Dawn castrates him because he lied about his feelings for her in order to get in her pants. Although this was likely a reason why he was explicitly shown to survive having sex with Dawn, unlike the others.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Ryan certainly is a jackass, but Dawn castrates him because he lied about his feelings for her in order to get in her pants.

** He also [[{{UsefulNotes/Consent}} essentially roofied]] her, by giving her a sedative to "settle her nerves," hiding her clothes when she came out of the bath, and immediately trying to initiate sex when she was too confused and fuzzy to even hold a glass and still talking about how she wanted to go to the police. She then blacked out and [[{{DudeShesLikeInAComa}} woke up]] to him fondling her. While she ends up [[{{NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization}}consenting to sex afterwards,]] it doesn't change the fact that she consented to nothing that happened beforehand and his actions were intensely rapey.

** He also essentially roofied her, by giving her a sedative to "settle her nerves," hiding her clothes when she came out of the bath, and immediately trying to initiate sex when she was too confused and fuzzy to even hold a glass and still talking about how she wanted to go to the police. She then blacked out and woke up to him fondling her. While she [[{{NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization}} ends up consenting to sex afterwards,]] it doesn't change the fact that [[{{UsefulNotes/Consent}}she consented to nothing that happened beforehand]] and his actions were intensely rapey.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The only time we ever see a vagina in the movie is a medical book diagram. The movie ends up remarkably afraid to show what could have been true NightmareFuel.
** Maybe there never was much to see; by all indications, that doctor who got a ''much'' better look than we ever did never detected anything out of the ordinary until he started to "test" Dawn's "flexibility" with his hand. Apparently, no one sees the teeth until they bite, and maybe not even then.

* YouFailBiologyForever (HollywoodEvolution): In the film it is implied that the teeth are a genetic mutation to give women a defense mechanism against rape. Let's see how the science bears this one out.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Brad has some very [[{{Squick}} unsettling]] feelings about his stepsister.
** NotBloodSiblings

* CreepyPhysical: Dawn is actually molested by her gynecologist when she wants to have her VaginaDentata examined. The doctor is loses four of his fingers in punishment.

* ILoveNuclearPower: It's [[{{SarcasmMode}} subtly]] implied Dawn's "power" is a side-effect of living next door to a nuclear power plant.
** Dawn's mother's illness is implied to have something to do with this too.

* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: '''Every''' prominent male character in the movie (excepting her apparently genuinely caring stepfather) wants to make some kind of indecent assault on Dawn. In just 85 minutes of screen time, she gets sexually abused 4 separate times by 4 different guys; then [[spoiler:she launches an "assault" of her own on Brad]]. At the end, [[spoiler:it's heavily implied another guy is about to try something indecent with her... and that Dawn is already preparing to make her uniquely devastating counterattack]].

* {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}: Brad is a sleazy and perverted misogynist, prone to calling ''every'' female in his life a "bitch" including even his mother and his stepsister.

* SiblingYinYang: Dawn is sweet, naive, pure, religious and has a close relationship with her parents. Brad is a moody, rebellious, loud, abstinence-hating promiscuous {{Jerkass}} who hates and resents his parents. Of course, the NotBloodSiblings, but the trope applies nonetheless.
* TooDumbToLive: Dawn runs to her friend Ryan for help and claims to have killed a guy. He manages to talk her into having sex with him. The next day, while having another round in the sack with her, he lets slip that he's been playing for her all along and she's just another lay for him. Furious at this betrayal, she bites off his penis. While his skepticism toward her claim of having a VaginaDentata is rather understandable under the circumstances, angering a girl who's visibly upset over a credible claim she's making that she just killed someone is ''never'' a good idea.

* TooDumbToLive: Dawn runs to her friend Ryan for help and claims to have killed a guy. He manages to talk her into having sex with him. The next day, while having another round in the sack with her, he lets slip that he's been playing for her all along and she's just another lay for him. Furious at this betrayal, she bites off his penis. While his skepticism toward her claim of having a VaginaDentata is rather understandable under the circumstances, angering a girl who's just killed someone is ''never'' a good idea.
* TheUnfairSex: In case it needs to be said again: EVERYONE WANTS TO RAPE DAWN!

* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: '''Every''' main male character in the movie (excepting her apparently genuinely caring step-father) wants to assault Dawn sexually. In just 85 minutes of screen time, she gets assaulted 8 separate times by 7 different men.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Contrast [[spoiler: Brad]]'s reaction with all the other victims. This may be due to him being stoned at the time.
* OhCrap: Brad has an almighty instance of this, as he finally realizes just how Dawn severely lacerated one of his fingers when he was a youngster. [[spoiler:Said realization comes while he's in the middle of having sex with her]].
* {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}: Brad is a sleazy and perverted misogynist, prone to using the word "bitch".
* PunnyName: The heroine's name is a pun on [[spoiler:a vaginal fart]].

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Don't rape Dawn, or her VaginaDentata will bite off your dick! (Also, [[CaptainObviousAesop don't rape anyone else either]]. People who aren't Dawn could just use a knife.)

* SiblingYinYang: Dawn is sweet, naive, pure, religious and has a close relationship with her parents. Brad is a moody, rebellious, loud {{Jerkass}} who hates and resents his parents. Of course, NotBloodSiblings, but still.
* TooDumbToLive: Dawn runs to her friend Ryan for help and claims that she has murdered people. They have sex. The next day Ryan decides to tell her that she is meaningless to him and he just had a bet to see if he could get her in the sack. He tells her this '''while''' having sex with her. She then bites off his penis. He might not have believed she had VaginaDentata, but when a girl claims to be a murderer it's clearly not a good idea to make her angry.

In this movie, ''[[RussianReversal vagina eats you!]]''

''Teeth'' is an independently produced black comedy/horror flick about a [[VaginaDentata simple girl whose vagina likes to bite off penises]]. She discovers her incredible gift one day when her love interest date rapes her. Throughout the movie the audience is treated to very nearly ''every'' man in the movie attempting some kind of sexual assault on Dawn, and having his offending appendage(s) bitten off as a result. If that makes it sound like it's a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek with a carnivorous vagina thrown in, that's because that's what it is.

* AllMenAreRapists: Every man in the movie wants to rape Dawn, except (apparently) her stepfather. Every last other male is suddenly craving to molest her. Her stepbrother, her semi-boyfriend, another male friend, her gynecologist, random strangers...

* BlackComedy
* BlackSheep: Dawn's brother is very much this.
* BloodyHilarious

* CreepyPhysical: Dawn is actually molested by her gynaecologist when she wants to have her VaginaDentata examined. The doctor's hand is bitten off in the process.
* CursedWithAwesome: When Dawn gains control over her teeth.
* DeathBySex: And how!

* GroinAttack: As if to rub it in, two of the discarded penises get eaten by a crab and a dog.
* ILoveNuclearPower: It's [[{{SarcasmMode}} subtly]] implied her "power" is a side-effect of living next door to a nuclear power plant.
** Dawn's mother's illness is implied to be a result of this too.
* {{Jerkass}}: Brad, in spades. Ryan, to a lesser degree.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the film's end, Dawn realizes she can deliver this to all of her would-be rapists and molesters.

* GenreSavvy: Brad is particularly suspicious of Dawn's apparent sudden desire to sleep with him near the end of the movie.

* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Generally lies on the latter part, with the humor coming from the outlandish premise and BloodyHilarious.

** [[RussianReversal In this movie, crabs get you!]]

** Alternatively, you could look at it as an inversion of ''SilentHill'', in that its protagonist is a disturbing, psycho-sexual mutant who has to run a gauntlet of ordinary humans who want to molest her.

* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:For a sick bastard, Brad]] is clever enough to realize that there's no way Dawn would actually want to have sex with him, and she really has to turn on the charm before he finally agrees to go through with it.

* AllMenArePerverts / AllMenAreRapists: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]; Everyone wants to rape Dawn, except (apparently) her stepfather. Every last other male is suddenly craving to molest her. Her stepbrother, her semi-boyfriend, another male friend, her gynecologist, random strangers...

''Teeth'' is an independently produced black comedy/horror flick about a [[VaginaDentata simple girl whose vagina likes to bite off penises]]. She discovers her incredible gift one day when her love interest date rapes her. Throughout the movie the audience is treated to pretty much every man in the movie trying to sexually assault the girl, Dawn, and having his penis bitten off as a result. If that makes it sound like it's a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek with a carnivorous vagina thrown in, that's because it is.

* AllMenArePerverts / AllMenAreRapists: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]; Everyone wants to rape Dawn. Maybe not her stepfather, but every other male is fair game. Her stepbrother, her semi-boyfriend, her gyneocologist, random strangers...

** Apparently a child will randomly experience a significant genetic mutation where she will grow giant shark like teeth (they are explicitly compared to the teeth of some carnivorous fish in the film) in her vagina (which is a good 2 feet from where they should grow) AND the musculature that would be necessary for full control of the biting motion of these teeth AND this whole overly complex system developed wholesale, completely intact in one generation without any subsystems developing first and finally functioning together as a whole after generations of mutation. Behold a movie's application of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldschmidt Richard Goldschmidt's "Hopeful Monster" theory]], which is a fancy scientific way to say "[[HandWave Yeah, we're totally BSing you here]]."

* CreditsGag: Towards the end of the credits before the special thanks is the disclaimer "no man was harmed during the making of this film." Heh.

* DirtyOldMan: The guy in the car at the end of the film.
* DoubleStandard: Pointed out by Dawn's classmates on about why their anatomy textbook shows the male reproductive organ in all glorious detail while censoring the picture of the female one. Dawn answers that it's because "women have decorum and modesty".
* {{Fingore}}: The gynecologist learns the hard way that it's a bad idea to try to "test" Dawn's "flexibility" with his hand.

* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:For a sick bastard, Brad]] is clever enough to realize that there's no way that Dawn would actually want to have sex with him, and it takes much persuasion before he finally agrees to go through with it.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted, you get to see Dawn's victims' mutilations in their full glory.

** [[RussianReversal In Russia, crabs get you!]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: At the film's end, Dawn realizes she can deliver this to rapists and perverts.
* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: '''Every''' main male character in the movie (with the exception of her genuinely caring step-father) wants to sexually assault Dawn. In just 85 minutes of screen time, she gets assaulted 8 separate times by 7 different men.
** Alternatively, you could look at it as the opposite of ''SilentHill'', in that its protagonist is a disturbing, psychosexual mutant who has to run a gauntlet of ordinary humans who want to molest her.

* ShowerOfAngst

* TooDumbToLive: Dawn runs to her friend Ryan for help and claims that she has murdered people. They have sex. The next day Ryan decides to tell her that she is meaningless to him and he just had a bet to see if he could have sex with her. He tells her this '''while''' having sex with her. She then bites off his penis. He might not have believed she had VaginaDentata, but when a girl claims to be a murderer it's clearly not a good idea to make her angry.