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She then researches vagina dentata and realizes she may have it. She visits a gynecologist, Dr. Godfrey, but he assaults her during the examination, reaching up inside her without a glove. She panics and her vagina bites off four fingers on his right hand.
Teeth: Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. With Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman. Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
4 min read. The pure-of-heart Dawn (Jess Weixler) finds out that she has an anatomical advantage over boys who won t take no for an answer in Teeth. “Teeth” sinks its incisors into a cross-cultural myth known as vagina dentata.
The cult horror-comedy Teeth, about a teenage girl with vagina dentata, just had its 15th anniversary. Director Mitchell Lichtenstein reflects on the feminist horror film.
Dawn drops her purity ring off of a cliff and even goes back to the swimming hole, only causing her to scream in horror because a freshwater crab was crawling on Tobey's penis. She then researches the so-called myth of "vagina dentata" (teeth in her vagina) and realizes she may have it.
Dawn (Jess Weixler) is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey (Hale Appleman), nature takes its course, and the pair answer the call. They suddenly learn she...
As the film opens with O’Keefe and her stepbrother Brad in a paddling pool, we learn her secret—she has vagina dentata (“toothed vagina” in Latin). Brad attempts to molest her and ends up with...
In the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, the vagina of Y.T., a female character, is equipped with a dentata, a device which injects a powerful soporific into whatever penetrates it, in order to prevent rape. The folk tale is the basis for the 2007 American comedy horror film Teeth, written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. [15]
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.
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.