{"id":36048,"date":"2021-10-20T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=36048"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:58:55","slug":"night-teeth-2021-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/20\/night-teeth-2021-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Teeth (2021) [Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a lot of world building in \u201cNight Teeth\u201d and that\u2019s not always a good thing. What seems like a movie based around two vampires and their inadvertent victim driver, morphs in to a very layered (to a fault) crime thriller involving two warring factions of hunters and vampires, a vampire mob boss, struggles for power, and turf wars. It almost feels like they intended \u201cNight Teeth\u201d to be part one of a trilogy. But I doubt we\u2019ll ever get the complete picture of it all.<\/p>\n

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To earn some extra cash, college student Benny moonlights as a chauffeur for one night. His task: drive two mysterious young women around Los Angeles for a night of party hopping. He soon learns that his passengers have their own plans for him — and an insatiable thirst for blood. As his night spins out of control, Benny is thrust into the middle of a clandestine war that pits rival tribes of vampires against the protectors of the human world, led by his brother who will stop at nothing to send them back into the shadows.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much going on in front of and behind the narrative of \u201cNight Teeth\u201d that it tends to feel polarizing as if you have to play catch up. I guess somewhere there\u2019s room for more exploration of this world, but for a movie that\u2019s intended as a one and done, it feels derivative of every other vampires vs. hunters piece of pop culture I\u2019ve ever experienced. The movie opts more for a vampire gangster movie than a horror movie, as what begins as a creepy ride to hell, transforms in to a drama about loyalties, botched raids, and even a night club ambush. That wouldn\u2019t be so bad if the mythology were at all fascinating, but it sadly isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a ton of explanation for the supposed treaty between the species, or why there\u2019s this grasp for control over the whole under world of vampire tribes. And why the inexplicable walk ons from Megan Fox and Sydney Sweeney? That said, Adam Randall\u2019s direction is at least very good and his neon tinted world of the vampires after dark is alluring, to say the least. It\u2019s no wonder Benny is terrified but soon very curious about what else this underworld has to offer him and his mundane life. This becomes especially true with the enthusiastic performances by Lucy Fry and Debby Ryan.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re two sides of the same coin and fascinating villains that seem to love inflicting pain, but also garner a hint of their lost humanity while riding around with Benny at the wheel. Star Jorge Lendeborg, Jr. is fine in the lead role, but Fry and Ryan pretty much steal the entire movie from under him the moment they\u2019re introduced. \u201cNigh Teeth\u201d is a fine movie in its own right. It by no means re-invents the wheel, but as stylish, bloody vampire fodder, it serves its purpose.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now Streaming Exclusively on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a lot of world building in \u201cNight Teeth\u201d and that\u2019s not always a good thing. What seems like a movie based around two vampires and their inadvertent victim driver, morphs in to a very layered (to a fault) crime thriller involving two warring factions of hunters and vampires, a vampire mob boss, struggles for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[240,302,391,477,703,1087,1151],"class_list":["post-36048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-gangster","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-thriller","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36050,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions\/36050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}