

There was that time with her stepbrother Brad in the inflatable pool when they were just kids, when he cut his finger while touching her under the water, but she repressed that memory a long time ago. unusual in the vicinity of her privates, something that confused and frightened her, but she tried not to think about it. She's always kind of known she had something. (Weixler plays it with a perfect blend of perky Reese Witherspoon cluelessness and wide-eyed Heather Graham innocence.) She's only just beginning to discover the new, and not fully manageable, powers of her own developing body, and at times she feels like an alien in her own skin.

Like Sissy Spacek's Carrie, Dawn is going through that awkward adolescent stage. But nobody ever said it was going to be easy. Believing that one's virginity is "the most precious gift of all," she encourages her fellow Promise Ring members to remain chaste until marriage. Yet she is committed to maintaining her purity. It's called sexuality, and it permeates her everyday life: from pop culture (parental-advisory lyrics, R and PG-13-rated movies) to anatomical textbook illustrations in health class to the hormones and pheromones that hang heavily in the atmosphere, like the fetid steam in a gymnasium locker room.Įverywhere she turns, Dawn the dental damsel-in-distress is surrounded by temptation. The 1950s sci-fi premise would be that Dawn is the unfortunate victim of radioactivity, but there's something else in the air (and maybe the water) here.
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Years later, Kim has developed cancer and teenage Dawn - well, the title of the movie refers to a biological abnormality she has developed down there. Bill (Lenny von Dohlen) and his son Brad ( John Hensley) are about to join Kim ( Vivienne Benesch) and her daughter Dawn ( Jess Weixler) to form a single-household zygote. 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.
