First Hit: What a bizarre film and although attention grabbing at the beginning it soon becomes predictable.
Vagina Dentata; that’s the term they use for it in this very odd film by Mitchell Lichtenstein.
The film is about Dawn a young high school girl (played by Jess Weixler) who is an up and coming star in the red ring wearing Promise Club.
The Promise Club promises to save their virginity until marriage when they trade the red ring in for the gold ring of marriage. Dawn shares her home with her sick mom, stepdad and a step brother whose finger tip got bitten off when, as a very young boy, when he touched Dawn’s private part.
As an added layer of background giving rise to Dawn’s abnormality there are multiple scenes where the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant are hovering over Dawn’s home. These cooling towers give this film a sense that her mom’s sickness and Dawn’s vagina oddity are the result of radiation poisoning.
Dawn starts to fall in love with another member of the Promise Club and dreams of him on their wedding night. While on an outing he tries to have his way with her and she gets very angry and in her anger, the Teeth in her vagina bite off his penis.
Mitchell doesn’t spare you the details therefore you get good looks at the bleeding member and the place it was once attached. That is part of the humor and darkness of this film.
Dawn wonders if she is the only person with this abnormality. She visits a doctor and when his manual inspection goes a little too far and she feels threatened the Teeth do their number and leave a floor full of bleeding fingers.
Overall: You get the picture, it was funny at times and in your face gross at others.