Where "Killer Pussy" tended to be over the top explicit, "Teeth" is still over the top, but in another way: it is mainly suggestive.

The movie focuses on Dawn (Jess Weixler), the most active member of her high school's chastity group, called 'the Promise,' which advocates for every member to wear a red ring, symbolizing his or her virginity that could "only be replaced by wedding gold."

Still, even Dawn is tempted when outgoing Tobey (Hale Appleman) enters her school and then the chastity group. After realizing that their thoughts are not 'pure' anymore, they decide not to see each other again. Yet Dawn soon calls Tobey when she needs someone to talk to or go swimming in a remote pond ...

Apparently Tobey takes the message the wrong way and although Dawn still likes him to kiss her, she doesn't quite appreciate him forcing himself on her. As the tag line only suggests, however, the young man eventually finds out that 'every rose has its thorns' and flees.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to bite you!" says the gynecologist during Dawn's medical checkup the next day, followed by a shot in which other medics try to sew Tobey's fingers back on. "Are you sure you don't want to tell us how this happened?" a doctor says. But he doesn't.

Unlike the gynecologist, Dawn tries to keep her head up in search for answers to her questions: Why is she equipped with a vagina dentata?

However, the movie fails to answer her question, as well as the concerns of the members of the 'the Promise' regarding sexual exploration. Instead, "Teeth" focuses extensively on developments within the chastity group, Dawn's sick mother and her increasingly anti-social step-brother.

A 'scary porn' that is not sexual and not that scary, the movie's only strength seems that it does not take itself seriously. While it received a lot of praise due to its high originality and black humor, it also received criticism due to its slow speed and repetitive situations.

The film's mix of cheap gags, macabre coming-of-age story, social satire and Cronenbergian body horror is apparently meant to gel into black comedy, but it never quite does, wisely wrote Maitland McDonagh of the TV Guide's Movie Guide.

But any movie about a girl with actual vagina dentata had better be either very scary or very funny--or, preferably, both, pointed out Kurt Loder from MTV. Unfortunately, "Teeth" can't decide what it wants to be.