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Review:
 They haven’t
done much with the tooth fairy legend. Well they have, but not the
horror film community. It’s not the idea, but the execution that
is bothersome. It’s totally predictable. The only two really scary
moments are fake-outs and it makes one angry. We want thrills and
chills and originality.
If you’re going to start a film with narration, continue with
narration, don’t introduce us to a narrator and then forget about
him, it’s annoying. Then don’t have a sympathetic monster. The
backstory tells us that the monster was once a wonderful person
who was disfigured in a fire and then accused of murder and hanged
before her "victims" were found right as rain.
This has a religious angle. God is unjust and wouldn’t let this
saintly person into Heaven, but forced her into the afterlife of
an avenging demon who kills little kids when they lose their last
baby tooth.
We first meet her in the flesh, so to speak twelve years in the
past, when ten-year-old Kyle (Joshua Anderson) loses his last baby
tooth and discusses his fears with his girlfriend Caitlin(Emily
Browning). Statutory rape is in the offing, but Kyle illegally
peeks at the face of the "tooth fairy." He’s chased and the
monster kills his mother(Rebecca McCauley) instead.
Cut to the present. Caitlin (Emma Caulfield) and her baby brother
Michael (Lee Cormie ) are orphans, or at least mom and dad are off
on holiday while the kid has a nervous breakdown.
Quite clearly, the Michael has seen the monster and knows for
certain that she’s out to get him. The doctors just think he’s
nuts. So Cat decides to call the only person she knows who has any
idea what they’re up against. Kyle(Chaney Kley), who’s been in and
out of loony bins for much of his life. Cute huh?
The death toll isn’t nearly as high as it could have been. Yes,
only people we don’t like or don’t care about get offed. We’d like
to see Larry the Lawyer(Grant Piro ) survive, but that would ruin
the romantic angle. So we have a chase and almost no blood.
Nothing else
This isn’t scary. The acting is okay, and Emma Caulfield shows
she can do other things besides being a priggish demon on "Buffy
the Vampire Slayer." Stan Winston’s special effects are
workmanlike, but rather uninspired.
Wait for the video.
Eric Lurio
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