Dogtooth -2009- Upd Jun 2026

There are dance competitions where the prize is a sticker. There are mandatory viewings of the father’s home movies—tapes of VCR static that the children are told are Hollywood blockbusters. There is the “punishment” of being made to crawl on all fours and bark like a dog. There is the mother’s sexual “training” of the son, framed as a clinical, maternal duty rather than incest.

The isolation is only breached by Christina, a security guard hired to satisfy the son's sexual urges. Her introduction of outside influences, including Hollywood VHS tapes like Rocky IV and Jaws , serves as the catalyst for the family's manufactured reality to unravel . dogtooth -2009-

The film ends on one of the most famously ambiguous freeze-frames in modern cinema. There are dance competitions where the prize is a sticker