Rent Tooth Fairy (2019)

DUFF Fairy - Tooth Fairy review by AER

If it were possible to leave minus stars on these reviews this would be minus 5. This unfinished, amateurish quickie has all the flare and poise of a home video of a child's nativity play, filmed by a drunk. There is no reason to watch this sorry shambles of a horror unless, like me, you waste too much time searching the UK's homegrown film releases for a low-budget horror gem. Painful - and this isn't director Louisa Warren's first film either, she's got form. Also avoid Satanic Nun, Viking War and Curse of the Scarecrow - and there's about 10 more from this terrible director coming too. You're better off dead than watching this.

Painful extractions - Tooth Fairy review by NP

It’s difficult to know what to make of this. The first few scenes made me think the production was a spoof, so incredible were the casting choices. Jen (Claudine-Helene Aumord) is visited by her resentful daughter Carla (Claire-Maria Fox), who looks exactly the same age. Father Rueben (Will Dodd) looks even younger, resplendent with a few grey flecks of hair and growling for all he’s worth to convince us of his ‘advanced’ years. It’s difficult to think of a worse start to a film.

Things improve slightly when the Tooth Fairy turns up, all distorted voice and Halloween mask. Suddenly, there’s a bit of gore and the tantalising idea of people suffering other peoples’ pain when having their teeth hammered out. In among the grubby soap-opera-level squabbles, the creature is revealed as a family curse, in a series of flashbacks spread throughout. All accompanied by the strains of a mournful piano.

This is an independent film, and I like independent films. And yet it suffers more than most with its limitations - it has no pace, and the acting varies from scene to scene. Even so, the location is beautiful and well-photographed and some moments are well directed. My score is 5 out of 10.