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Dental Horror!

Teeth are hard, calcified structures in the mouth that are essential for breaking down food through chewing, forming words for speech, and maintaining overall oral health.


They are also dreadful sources of pain, an object for torture and things that can get smashed out of your skull in a bloody instant.


One starry friday night, a night of icy gusts of wind and of gerenal unrest in the populus, the Rookies at the Horror Rookie Academy decided to dive into the topic of dental horror: the portrayal of teeth in horror films. We decided to limit the topic to mainly human teeth, but since the sphere of horror is a transcendant and messy one, we of course welcomed other types of teeth in horror as well. Tusks, for example. Or simply messed up tooth-related stuff. 



The films listed below either centers around the topic of teeth or has predominant scenes portraying teeth in them. It is a creepy collection of films, this. 


Films that make your molars ice and throb just by thinking of them.


Enjoy! 🦷


TitleYearIMDb
Don't be afraid of the Dark20105,5
The Dentist19965,4
The Dentist 219984,8
American History X19988,5
Razorback19846,0
Boar20175,1
Darkness Falls20035,0
Teeth20075,4
Tusk20145,4
Oldboy20038,3
Final Destination 220036,2
Bring her Back20257,2
Little Shop of Horrors19867,1
Stir of Echoes19996,9
Channel Zero20167,1
The haunting of Helena20124,6
Novocaine20015,8
Karius og Baktus19557,7
Teeth (short)20156,8
Dogtooth20097,1
Gremlins 219906,5
Toot fairy20192,1








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