Teeth
2015 · 7m · Royaume-Uni
Directed by Tom Brown, Daniel Gray
Genres: animation, experimental, horror
Tones: dark, provocative, surreal
In this autobiographical animated horror, a narrator recounts his lifelong disgust for his teeth and the violence he inflicted on them to make them disappear, alongside his obsession with chewing and a morbid fascination with animal dentition.
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The scouts
Most people would've made this a therapy document or a body-horror gross-out; Brown and Gray instead weaponize autobiography into something genuinely disorienting—the obsession with animal teeth as a kind of perverted natural history is exactly the wrong-footed brilliance that makes consensus uncomfortable.
The film sits awkwardly between confession and formalist experiment, which is precisely where its formal ambition lives; the animation choices—restraint in some moments, grotesque specificity in others—suggest a deliberate lineage with autobiographical avant-garde rather than conventional horror.
The decision to let the narrator's voice remain almost clinical while the visuals escalate into surreality is what makes this work; that tonal split, held with discipline across seven minutes, transforms a potentially indulgent premise into something genuinely unsettling and precise.
Reviews
Le jeu de mot est facile et nous ne l’éviterons pas : « Teeth » (Dents) est un film mordant. Mordant au sens d’incisif (incisives ?) : qui touche juste et qui fait mal.