Peter is working hard to get things ready before the grand opening of his Bed & Breakfast place. He's joined over the weekend by his girlfriend Darcy, and her eleven year old daughter Pamela that are gonna provide some help with fixing the place up. Soon after their arrival, Pamela meets a young girl named Emma who tells her about the evil Tooth Fairy who used to live in the house Peter is turning into a Bed & Breakfast. After the meeting, Pamela happen to be in a bicycle accident which makes her knock out her last baby tooth. The construction work on the house has woken up the old Tooth Fairy, and now she's after Pamela and everyone else who stands in her way.
It felt like a movie like The Tooth Fairy could've gone either way, that you would dismiss it as yet another unsatisfying new horror flick, or that it would be entertaining, fun and splattery. Luckily, the latter alternative applied, and even if The Tooth Fairy didn't come off as very original, it sure had a lot of nice things to offer, but most of all, it was a really fun horror movie to watch. When it comes to movies like this, the stories are always fairly predictable, but it's just how things are excuted that matters, and with that, the Tooth Fairy really pulls it off. Chances that you are going to be scared watching a movie like this are of course very slim, that is if you're not a kid per se, so it has to offer something else, and it's when it comes to delivering these other things that a lot of new horror movies tends to fail. Fortunately this one managed to keep the interest up.
Do you remember Darkness Falls? Personally I hated that flick which dealt with a Tooth Fairy , just like this one does, but the similarities ends right there. The Tooth Fairy here looked better, acted better, and it was a joy to see all those gory scenes that she so nicely made happen. The fact that it had all these nasty scenes to offer made it feel like a proper horror movie, and not just something that was created for a bunch of young and clueless kids, but something that real horror fans could actually watch and enjoy. Also, that the movie had this fairy-tale element made it feel more like the gory saga it turned out to be, rather than your average slasher flick with some boring psychpath killing off teens to left and right. And no, there were no teens in this movie, thank God.
 
The story is rather simple but doesn't need more to it for it to work. We've all heard about the Tooth Fairy right? Well, the Tooth Fairy here was an evil old lady (with extremely bad skin) who took children's last tooth after it fell off, and then killed them. Just that with killing young children is kinda nasty enough, and the movie starts out with a scene featuring that; Luring a little kid into her house promising him a brand new bike, but instead he gets a hatchet in the head after that his tooth has been pulled out. Now, that's my kinda girl (well, on film that is).
This all happened back in 1949. Fast-forward to present time, and Peter is working on the old lady's house that he just bought, which he is turning into a Bed & Breakfast. He's joined by his girlfriend Darcy and her daughter Pamela, plus that there's already a friend of his there helping him out, and an early female guest arrives shortly after as well. Pamela meets a mysterious young girl who doesn't know who Harry Potter is, but who tells her the truth about the evil Tooth Fairy. On her way back home from meeting the girl, Pamela falls off her bike and knocks out her last baby tooth. Now, this evil Tooth Fairy has woken up from her slumber, or whatever kept her away, and since she's the Tooth Fairy, she of course wants Pamela's tooth, but also wants to see the little girl dead. So how do you fight a Tooth Fairy? Well, watch it and find out.
Basically what made this movie a pleasant watch, was the fact that it had some really good pacing, had some small amounts of humour that worked, and had these gory scenes that I mentioned earlier that it so wouldn't have worked without. The story is of course pretty predictable, and chances to get scared are below minimal, but that doesn't mean that it's not worth watching, because that it is. The house (Bed & Breakfast) made for a really good location for the movie to take place in. It was surrounded by a forest, plus a cemetary close by, and everything looked sharp, and the location and the forest added to the feeling of the fairy-tale itself.
The Tooth Fairy looked pretty nasty, especially up-close, and the make-up and effects used in the movie worked well. The photography was nice, and last but not least, the acting was above decent. My only complaint when talking about the acting would be from a woman who were present two times in the movie, and who warned Peter and his girl about the Tooth Fairy. She wasn't the least bit convincing, and the way she read her lines felt extremely stiff with no real feeling whatsoever. That's one minor complaint though, and is really nothing since she was not in the movie much at all. On the plus side, I have to say that the girl who played Pamela (Nicole Muņoz) did a great job. Usually I have huge problems with most children in movies when they have leading parts, but she proved to be good, and not irritating at all as so often is the case. All the other actors were ok, and it was cool as well to know that the Tooth Fairy was actually played by Peng Zhang Li, not just a man, but an Asian martial arts choreographer.
I never expected The Tooth Fairy to be one bit scary, so therefore I wasn't really disappointed when it wasn't. But it sure was entertaining, and had a lot of great splatter and gore to offer, and that's never a bad thing. Some cool killing scenes, a great location, and was basically a both fun and easy movie to watch. Even it was very predictable, the almost 90 minutes went by really fast due to good pacing, and it never felt dull or too unoriginal. The fairy-tale element helped a lot, and the fact that there were some nice gory scenes helped even more. If you're looking for an easy and entertaining horror flick, this would be a good pick.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Chuck Bowman
WRITING CREDITS: Stephen J. Cannell, Corey Strode
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Carrie Fleming, Nicole Muņoz, Lochlyn Munro
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 89 min
RATING: 7/10
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