The Night Teeth sees Megan Fox return to horror in a ing role, but this could be the part to propel the ‘00s mainstay back into the spotlight. From director Adam Randall, Night Teeth is a forthcoming Netflix horror with a wicked premise. A cash-strapped student working as a chauffeur has the ride of his life when he picks up a pair of party girls who are soon revealed to be something far more sinister than their cheery exterior promised.
According to the movie’s trailer, viewers can expect Night Teeth to be a campy, bloody, and creepy mash-up of a The Voyeurs’ Sydney Sweeney. It may be a smaller part, but Fox’s earlier work in horror has recently received significant reappraisal.
After a role in 2007’s horror movie started and put her back in the limelight.
The failure of Jennifer’s Body came down less to the movie’s story and performances (which were more than solid) and more to the studio’s insistence that it was a bloody, high-energy comedy-horror. In reality, director Karyn Kusama’s movie is a dark, slow effort whose comedy largely comes from pitch-black satire. However, Fox is revelatory in the titular role, turning what could easily have been an over-sexualized teen character into a believably over-confident, awkward, and eventually tragic figure. While Night Teeth’s promotional materials imply the movie will be a more light-hearted and high-energy, action-forward affair than Jennifer’s Body, Fox’s role as a vampiric temptress likely means she’ll be returning to a lot of the elements that anchored her most underrated role to date.
However, Night Teeth is not the first Till Death, a blackly comic horror thriller that left her character handcuffed to a dead man for much of its runtime. A gruesome and wryly funny affair, the Coen Brothers-esque indie was never going to earn mainstream attention but still saw Fox’s performance singled out as a highlight of its tense, gripping runtime. Between that recent success and the enduring cult appeal of Jennifer’s Body, it seems that the timing is perfect for Fox to make a triumphant return to horror – and Night Teeth’s offbeat chills may be the perfect vehicle for her comeback.
