USA, 2008, 88 min.

Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Producer: Joyce Pierpoline
Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Paris, Hale Appleman, Ashley Springer
Release: 2008/05/07
Teeth is a horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the independent drama category.

Teeth tells the story of High school student Dawn (Jess Weixler) works hard atsuppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s mostactive participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boystepbrother Brad’s (John Hensley) increasingly provocative behavior at home. Astranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vaginawhen she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend heranatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power ofbeing a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

Reaction from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival seems to be positive, with Cinematical critic Scott Weinberg saying, "Teeth is precisely the sort of genre movie that we need to see more of".
Adrienne Shelly Foundation artistic director Mystelle Brabbée declared it "one of the most talked-about films at the Sundance Film Festival this year".