This article containsNight Teethspoilers.
A formidable trio, yes, butMegan Foxand Sydney Sweeney pull the real coup in the film.
Their vampire queens Grace and Eva only get one scene and make off with the movie.
So perhaps Fox and Sweeney should bare their fangs in a feature they can sink their teeth into.
She is far more thanJennifers Body, and the typecasting has made her stronger.
Fry is a strong lead, too.
Fox, however, is a force of nature.
Shes given psychic readings on live TV.
She maybea vampire for all we know.
It fills every expectation of the genre in exactly the timing that general audiences respond to.
This means evil characters have to die.
It doesnt matter if you like them; monsters must be dispatched by the end of the movie.
They may come back a few times, but unless theres a franchise planned, evildoers go down.
Fox and Sweeneys Grace and Eva are Victors bosses.
Victors proposal is a sound one.
Take away the protection, and the entire city is an open neck.
she admits, illuminated by a fireplace burning deep red.
The vampire protectors of the human world are only protecting humans out of convenience.
As the overseers, Grace and Eva are deliciously, offhandedly cruel.
Every sentence carries a bite.
They are insolent, jaded immortals who like the status quo because they control it.
I have since I was a kid.
They speak to me.
But in this film, the most antagonistic vampires are the best characters.
Alexander Ludwigs Rocko is a breath of stale fetid air.
Victor offers a vampire hunter a bite of his own niece.
Megan Fox and Sydney Sweeney play greedy, narcissistic, bored and cynical majesties, entitled by blood.
They are vampire queens and should be given their reign.
Fox certainly earned her place as horror royalty.
The best way to do this would be a prequel.
Then we would also get to see the underworld of vampire crime families in detail.
What kinds of mob bosses are Grace and Eva?
The vampires inNight Teethonly show superspeed and strength.
We get very little evidence of some of the more supernatural gifts vampires are traditionally endowed with.
Foxs Grace may very well have maintained territorial control through vampire mind control.
She can certainly pull it off in a believable way.
She was also quite good in HBOs breakout hit,The White Lotus.
She and Fox enjoy a natural and caustic chemistry.
Grace transforms the uppity Victor into a wormy Theon Greyjoy by merely dismissing him as tacky.
A prequel could also fill in the backstory of Zoe and Blaire.
Fry and Ryan work very well off each other, and convey the long friendship theyve enjoyed.
Seeing how Zoe and Blaire first connected could be an equally compelling subject.
They both excel as group players, and the core acting talent ofNight Teethmake an excellent troupe.
Rockos backstory would make a great subplot.
But it needs Grace and Eva front and center.
Thats where the magic is.
Night Teethpremieres on Netflix Oct. 20.
