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The Tooth Fairy (2006) DVD Review
The Tooth Fairy (2006) DVD Credits:
The Tooth Fairy (2006) Directed by:
Chuck Bowman
The Tooth Fairy (2006) Written by:
Not available at this time
The Tooth Fairy (2006) Cast:
Carrie Fleming, Nicole Muñoz, Jianna Ballard, Jesse Hutch
The Tooth Fairy (2006) Released by:
IDT Entertainment, New Arc Entertainment
Region:
1
The Tooth Fairy (2006) DVD Release Date:
7th August 2006
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The Tooth Fairy (2006) Synopsis:

When 12-year-old Pamela (Munoz) goes on vacation with her family (West, Munro) 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.

The Tooth Fairy (2006) DVD Review:

For years there was a ridiculous trend that had horror films relying on children to provide the chills. This trend was somewhat backwards, considering the fact that many horror films enforced fears that were formed during childhood. Horror films make more sense to involve children being frightened, rather than full grown adults scared by ghost children. The Tooth Fairy is surprisingly refreshing because it feels like it was made long before horror films were over-intellectualized. There isn’t much as far as plot goes, but there is a creature in the woods and it is out to kill everybody. That is all of the set-up that a horror movie really needs.

Adding a new myth to the classic tooth fairy tale, a witch in Northern California killed a number of children in 1949, so when her old house is converted into a bed-and-breakfast people begin dying again. The rumor was that the witch would take a child’s last baby tooth before killing them. There are all sorts of rules applied as the film continues, allowing a chance for good to overcome evil by end credits. The murder weapons that the fairy/witch chooses are especially gruesome, making this a familiar sort of slasher.

Part of what makes The Tooth Fairy more successful than the usual slew of horror films that seem to appear on new release shelves every Tuesday is the look of the film. It may not be perfect quality, and it may not even be well edited, but with a film like this it is doing well just being shot on film and shown in a widescreen presentation. Horror films shot on digital always tend to look funnier than scary, mostly because they nearly always tend to look sloppy. The Tooth Fairy, however lacking the script may be, looks like a film even when it is a bad film.

The DVD has a quick little featurette about the making of the film, with plenty of behind the scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew. There is also a surprising commentary track with the director, producer, and a supporting actor. Aside from the trailer, this is it as far as special features go, and it is more than enough.

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The Tooth Fairy (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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