Written by Jennifer
October 13, 2009 Hits: 433
It's not porn, but it is like those nightmares where your teeth fall apart.
A few things you'll want to know about Oral Fixation before you watch:
- It's not porn, but it is like those nightmares where your teeth fall apart.
- It's distinctly low budget and has no big stars attached.
- It's not as bad as you might expect.
Armed with this information, you're in a good position to enjoy the movie for what it is—a twisted indie film constructed around one of the craziest stories you'll ever hear.
Rachel Marks (Emily Parker) loves her dentist. She loves everything about their visits, and dreams that one day he'll leave his wife and they'll run away together and start a family of their own. She loves him so much that she's willing to chip her teeth with large metal objects just so she can go in for repair. This love moves her to follow him home, creep around his house, watch while he has sex with his wife, and steal a used condom from the garbage. Then, jealous and desperate, she goes home and pulls an entire molar right out of her head just so she can call him at home and make an emergency appointment. No, that sounds far too tidy. She wrenches the tooth out with a pliers or some similarly horrifying tool that should never ever ever go anywhere near one’s teeth, pulling at it, knocking it loose, yanking and twisting with blood and drool running out of her mouth and onto her hands. And it takes her awhile, because as any sane person will recall, teeth have long, sturdy roots, and this is why most of us are so fond of anesthesia when we have them taken out. Just watching the scene makes you cover your face with your hands in some vain attempt to protect your own pearly whites.
By this point, you, I, and Dr. Dentist have all worked out that what Rachel is feeling is not love. Though the dentist thwarts her sexual advances and tries to convince his wife that nothing is going on, his own past indiscretions work against him. By the time his wife realizes that her husband has done nothing wrong, it’s too late. Rachel has plotted and schemed to ruin their lives and there’s no way they’re going to get it together in time to outsmart her. A strange series of developments follow, including a mad scientist father, mixed up pleasure and pain receptors, a murder, and a stolen identity. The film is a train wreck in every sense of the word, but as the story barrels toward disaster on its student-film production values it becomes increasingly difficult to look away.
DVD NOTES
DVD extras include the short documentary "Welcome to Oral Fixation," director's commentary, and a photo gallery.
