In her anger, her vagina bites off his penis, and she leaves him to call his mother for help. Ryan smugly boasts that he and the friend had bet on whether he could score with Dawn. The following morning they have sex again, but mid-coitus, Ryan's friend calls. Though initially afraid she will hurt him, she finds that when she is relaxed and is consenting to the sexual activity taking place, her "teeth" do not engage. Ryan gives her a sedative and masturbates her with a vibrator. Dawn's mother is taken to the hospital.ĭawn goes to Ryan seeking help, hysterical about her encounter with the doctor and her mother. Dawn comes home and finds her, while Brad and Melanie are seen in his room having sex while Dawn's mother lies on the floor. Meanwhile, back at home, her ill mother, Kim O'Keefe ( Vivienne Benesch), collapses. When she arrives, she sees the police bringing up Tobey's body – he presumably died of shock in the water. She decides to go back to visit the pool to investigate. While biking home, several police vehicles pass her, and she sees someone driving a car that looks like Tobey's car. When he assaults her in the guise of an examination, reaching up inside her without a glove, she panics and her vagina bites off four fingers on his right hand. Godfrey ( Josh Pais), in an attempt to find out what is happening to her. She then researches " vagina dentata" and realizes that she may have it. After a Promise meeting, she meets her classmate Ryan ( Ashley Springer) at a dance they talk, and he drops her off at her home.ĭawn goes back to the swimming hole and she screams in horror when she sees a freshwater crab crawling on Tobey's penis. Dawn fights back and inadvertently bites off his penis with her vagina. Tobey shakes Dawn, smacking her head on the ground and dazing her Tobey takes the opportunity to begin raping her. Dawn becomes uncomfortable and tries to get Tobey to go back outside, but Tobey becomes more physical and aggressive.
After swimming together, they go into a cave to get warm and begin kissing. However, they later give in and meet at a local swimming hole. Dawn has fantasies about marrying Tobey, although after acknowledging the attraction, they agree that they cannot spend time together. One afternoon after giving a speech to her group about the purity ring worn by members of the group, Dawn is introduced to Tobey ( Hale Appleman), whom she finds attractive. At home on several occasions, she hears her stepbrother Brad ( John Hensley), and his girlfriend Melanie (Nicole Swahn) arguing about Brad's refusal to engage in vaginal intercourse with her, insisting on only having anal sex. She attends groups with her two friends, Alisha (Julia Garro) and Phil (Adam Wagner). Bill (Lenny von Dohlen) and his son Brad are about to join Kim and her daughter Dawn to form a single-household zygote.Dawn O'Keefe ( Jess Weixler) is a teenage spokesperson for a Christian abstinence group called "the Promise". The camera tilts down to the lawn of a suburban home where nuclear family fusion is about to occur. Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein's teen horror-(of)-sex comedy begins with a big visual pun about a different portion of the feminine anatomy: An impressive pair of atomic power-plant silos protrude from the horizon like. Whether you view it as a primordial image from the collective unconscious or a practical warning against promiscuity, vagina dentata makes an indubitably memorable impression - and an ideal premise for a tongue-in-cheek thriller about uncontrollable urges. (Or, as the movie puts it, 'the dark crucible that hatched him.' ) Advertisement. It also symbolizes the woman's anxieties about penetration, and/or her desire to devour her mate, who is attempting to fulfill his own bio-mythological destiny by returning upstream to spawn in the womb from whence he originated.