Warning: Spoilers Ahead For Night Teeth
Megan Fox is featured heavily in the promos for Netflix's vampire movie Night Teeth, but how big is her role? Long before Night Teeth, Fox first rose to fame thanks to her role as Mikaela in the original Transformers. This led to roles in other major movies like Jennifer's Body - which is now a cult favorite - and Jonah Hex. However, the underperformance of both movies, combined with being dropped from the third Transformers following comments made in an interview about the franchise's director Michael Bay, saw her career take a hit.
Thankfully, Fox has risen to prominence again in the last few years. She reunited with Bay - who acted as producer - on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, where she played April O'Neil. She had a well-received recurring role as Reagan on New Girl and played the lead in dark thriller Till Death in 2021. She's also set to play a major role in the upcoming fourth Expendables alongside Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone.
Megan Fox also appears in Netflix's Night Teeth, which stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr. as Benny, a chauffeur who learns his new clients are really vampires. The movie plays like a mixture of Michael Mann's Collateral and Blade, especially with the latter's depiction of centuries-old vampire clans secretly living among humanity. Night Teeth's main villain is Victor (Alfie Allen), who is breaking the truce between vampires and humans and performing a coup d'etat among his own kind. Fox and Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney play Grace and Eva respectively, Victor's bosses, but while the two actors make a big impression, they only have one scene in the entire movie.
Their sole Night Teeth scene sees Victor arrive unannounced at their house, and while they believe he's come to beg for forgiveness, he's come to kill them both. It's a fun scene with Megan Fox, in particular, enjoying hamming it up slightly as her vampire boss drinks from a blood martini. Despite their prominent billing, Fox and Sweeney only have about four minutes of screentime before they're both killed offscreen. This feels like a waste of both performers because while Allen has some lowkey menace as Victor, Fox's Grace would have made for a much more entertaining villain.
It's fair to assume some viewers may check out Netflix's Night Teeth due to Megan Fox's appearance, and they'll undoubtedly be disappointed by what amounts to a brief cameo. In general, Night Teeth has a problem with teasing a more interesting story outside of the Benny plotline. The inner workings of the vampire clans or the hunters chasing after Victor are often more intriguing than Benny's misadventures, and the Megan Fox/Sydney Sweeney sequence feels like another example of the movie going off in a more entertaining direction. A version of the story where they played a bigger part would have been to Night Teeth's benefit, but sadly, they're both wasted.