Vagina dentata

Teeth, which premiered at Sundance this year, is a film about a teenage girl who is “the local chastity group’s most active participant”… and then discovers she’s living the vagina dentata myth.

A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence.

A friend who went to Sundance said this was the film everyone was talking about. Says director Michael Lichtenstein,

I’ve known about the vagina dentata myth for a long time. Though there are many versions of the myth, the story is nearly always the same: the hero must conquer the woman/creature with the teeth. I thought it would be fun and informative to turn the myth around so that it is the toothed woman who is the heroine. And the story grew out of that “what if…” premise.

I wonder if this is also what inspired the “Rapex” condom? One reviewer wrote,

If you get over the rather distasteful subject matter and focus on what’s beneath the surface, you’ll find a flick that’s got a whole lot to say about young women and their fear of burgeoning sexuality, society’s general distaste (and, let’s face it, fear) of the female sex organ, and the ways in which men do a serious disservice to womankind by treating their “naughty bits” as if they’re something to be ashamed of.

I can’t wait to see it. My only problem is that the movie poster seems a little too fluffy-teen-comedy for the real subject matter.