Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Cast: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth. [Synopsis by anon @ IMDB]
Sexual angst themed horror about a girl who’s got a vagina with teeth. The story starts with Brad/Dawn a step brother/sister who share a 'show me yours and I'll show you mine' moment during a childhood play session which turns out bad for the brother Brad when he gets his finger bitten. Cut forward ten or so years and they've turned into your typical squabbling angst ridden teens only both still mentally blocking out their childhood play session memories. Brads got a sexual hang-up on pussy so takes his girls from behind leaving him more than a little angry. Dawn on the other hand as gone down the keep your virginity till your wedding night route and joined a sex is sacred movement. It all seems to be going fine enough till Dawn starts to want more from her fellow abstinent boyfriend than to hold hands. During a moment the young couple are kissing and cuddling she says stop, only he doesn’t and pays the price as her vagina bites his penis off and ultimately he bleeds to death. Upset and seeking answers Dawn goes on-line for help and reads about a European folk-tale Vagina Dentata. The story goes a woman born with a tooth lined vagina kills men seeking to pleasure themselves. Shortly after she goes to see a gynaecologist to see if he can shed some light on her problem, only during the examination she bites his fingers off. She flees from the scene to a geeky school friend who kept pestering her for dates. Only he’s not as naive as she first thought and he uses a date rape drug on her, oddly though this must relax her enough to allow her to have sex. Feeling happy that she can be somewhat normal she spends the night with him. Morning after and during sex he rings up friends telling them of his conquest, this pisses Dawn off and she bites his penis off. Now with the mindset that good or bad she’s got this ability and may as well use it for her advantage she goes home and confronts her step brother Brad who’s been pestering her for sex, it all ends bloodily with the English phrase Dogs Bollocks springing to mind. The films highly cheesy aiming more for a dark comic feel than all out horror or tension, got to be said also that at times it feels like the film makers are dragging out too thin an idea for a feature, maybe it would have worked out better in an hour long segment like a Masters of horror episode. It’s all well enough acted Dawn (Jess Weixler) comes across a lot like the new Kate Winslet. The films also got a funny use of music during Brads scenes we get heavy rock and during Dawn we get anti teen sex Christian music. I'm sure it'll get rave reviews by its teen viewers though and will fit in nicely alongside other teen angst horrors like Ginger Snaps and May.
(6½ out of 10)
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