Dawn is an active member of her high-school chastity club but, when she meets Tobey, she finds him very attractive and tries not to spend time with him. But when Tobey becomes physical and assaults her, he learns the most painful way that Dawn is not a regular girl: she has a vagina with teeth.

Horror films have long been the ideal vessel for exorcising social and cultural anxieties, but few come as symbolically loaded as this snappy comedy. An incisively satirical coming-of-age tale, Teeth refashions the folkloric myth of “vagina dentata” into a biting interrogation of teenage sexuality.