Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she is a living example of the vagina dentata myth, when the encounter takes a grisly turn.
Acting
Jess Weixler's perfectly calibrated innocence-to-rage arc.
Direction
Lichtenstein's deadpan commitment to the absurd premise.
Practical Effects
The... mechanics. You'll know when you see them.
Director
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vagina dentata appears in folklore from Native American to Hindu traditions—Lichtenstein weaponizes a patriarchal fear into feminist catharsis.
The nuclear towers looming over suburbia aren't subtle: Dawn's 'condition' mirrors environmental toxicity and repressed sexuality literally poisoning the water.
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