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The Tooth Fairy (2006)

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When 12-year-old Pamela goes on vacation with her family to a bed and breakfast, the girl who lives next door tells her the "true story" of the Tooth Fairy: Many years earlier, the evil Tooth Fairy slaughtered a countless number of children to take their teeth, and now she has returned to kill Pamela and anyone else who gets in her way. --IMDb
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Review by Chad
Added: September 25, 2006
Childhood beliefs are so innocent on the surface, aren't they? I mean, there's the whole Santa Claus deal, along with the boogeyman, the Easter bunny, the "Bloody Mary" urban legend, and of course, the tooth fairy. What is it, then, that makes these topics so ripe for the pickings for those in the horror market? Perhaps it's the fact that we take them at face value, but if you really think about them, they're kind of creepy - a man who watches you constantly, knows where you live, and hates bad children, or a woman who pays you for your body parts? Maybe that's why, with the possible exception of the Easter bunny, each of these fictional characters has received at least one horror film dedicated to them, and tonight's film is the second (at least) nod to that fair lady that gives you cash for your baby teeth.

I think everyone out there knows about the whole cash for teeth business that this fairy is involved in, so I'm not going to go into the details of her little tooth-harvesting career in this review. However, the backstory found here is quite different from whatever you may have heard as a child, and it all starts back in the forties with a grossly disfigured woman who would give children presents for their teeth... before savagely murdering them with an axe. She wound up with a grand total of twelve confirmed kills before someone put a stop to her crimes (who and how is never explained), and we then cut to the present day.

Peter Campbell (Lochlyn Munro) has purchased the house where all of these crimes were committed, and with the help of Bobby Boulet (Jesse Hutch), he plans to fix it up before opening it to the public as a bed-and-breakfast inn. A few days before they're all set to open it up, the first guest arrives, a former stripper and future veterinarian by the name of Star Roberts (Carrie Fleming). Soon afterwards, there are another set of visitors: Peter's former wife Darcy (Chandra West) and her daughter Pamela (Nicole Muņoz). However, this group of five barely have time to get to know one another before odd events start to occur, with the first being the appearance of a strange little girl (Jianna Ballard) that talks to Pamela... and that nobody else can see. This little girl, Emma, tells Pamela the legend of the tooth fairy and how this woman murders children after taking their teeth. This revelation doesn't sit too well with Pamela, considering that she just lost her last baby tooth, and sure enough, the tooth fairy shows up shortly afterwards. Unlike the legend though, this particular tooth fairy isn't content to only murder children; no sir, everyone in the house is fair game.

It's pretty funny that when Darkness Falls came out a few years ago, I scoffed at it and never did get around to watching it. I mean, honestly - a horror movie, for adults, with the tooth fairy as the main antagonist? C'mon, who's going to buy that shit? Then, when The Tooth Fairy was released, I thought to myself "Self, that looks interesting, why not give it a chance?" I couldn't even begin to explain the sudden change in logic there, as the two films are very similar (so similar, in fact, that a lawsuit was filed between their respective writers), but one managed to stand out on new-release Tuesday while the other was laughed at. Go figure.

So anyway, the movie at hand. While I wouldn't go so far as to call it a classic or even label it a must-see, I will say that it was fairly enjoyable for what it was. Given the premise, I didn't go in expecting a whole lot, and with that mindset, I wasn't disappointed by what I got out of the film. The only real downside to the movie was the storyline; now, given the type of villain involved here, I can understand that the writers probably wouldn't come up with an award-winning storyline that was chock-full of originality - I mean, it's a horror movie about the tooth fairy, what did you expect? However, my problem with said storyline was that it featured a number of plot holes that were quite difficult to overlook, as well as the fact that a lot of things go completely unexplained. What was the point of the Lil' Red Riding Hood wannabe that figured so prominently into the storyline? Whatever happened to the tooth fairy the first time around, and what has she been doing for the sixty years in between? Why was... well, there's more, but I won't point them out for fear of spoiling things for those of you who may be interested in this title. Again, I wasn't expecting a storyline-heavy ninety minutes here, but I did feel that a little more work could have done wonders for this film.

On the positive side of things, gorehounds will surely love some of the effects and kills seen throughout this running time. They were certainly a lot better than they had any right to be, and some of them were downright disgusting (in a good way, of course). Also, there's one kill sequence in particular toward the end that I won't reveal, but it's followed by a line that had both yours truly and the woman of the house laughing until the tears rolled; seriously, I had to pause the movie for a couple of minutes until we could regain our composure. This movie certainly isn't a horror-comedy by any means, but there are a few pieces of humor thrown in that work out wonderfully, with that scene obviously being the shining example. Hell, there's even a nice set of boobies on display courtesy of Carrie Fleming for the men in the audience, in what has to be one of the most ill-timed sex scenes in cinematic history. I can't say that I was disappointed by this scene - to be honest, I was hoping for her to drop her top from the moment she appeared on screen - but the way it's set up is unintentionally funnier than most of the legit humor in the film.

This is one of those movies that's made explicitly for two-for-one night at your local video store or the five dollar bin at your favorite retailer. I wouldn't advise making this your top rental priority or going out and paying full retail price for it, but if it's a free rental or a cheap purchase, it's definitely worth a viewing for fans of b-horror. 6/10.
Edd #1: Edd - added September 27, 2006 at 7:36am
I thought this movie was much better than "Darkness Falls". Same premise (To an extent) a little better in the acting department, and it never got ruined with cheap scares or over the top effects. 8/10
Crispy #2: Crispy - added March 4, 2010 at 12:13am
This has got to be one of the worst written scripts I've ever happened across. Still, the nailed to the wall kill and Carrie Fleming's rack make this worth a viewing.
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