Vaginal horror movies, no really!

August 14, 2023 2:51 AM

Looking to compile a collection of movies like Teeth (2007) but not only about the infamous vagina dentata, but any other types of haunted hoo-has, monsterous muffs, cursed cooters or otherwise abject intimate anatomy.

I am open to listing all sorts, but for the sake of our movie night entertainment it would be great if you could say if the movie is highly exploitative/misogynistic or more on the camp/serious end of things. I will say if you have other vulva centered movies that aren't horror or pron, do let me know.

posted by Iteki to Media & Arts (24 answers total)

Response by poster: Meant to add that while something like Carrie would kinda count, I think I want more of a main theme.
posted by Iteki at 2:53 AM on August 14, 2023

Chatterbox really isn't a horror movie, it's a comedy, although I suppose there are a lot of men who would be terrified to hear what a vadge has to say.
posted by briank at 4:33 AM on August 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Bad Biology
posted by cakelite at 5:32 AM on August 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Perhaps of interest: The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism & Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed (drawing on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror, and the concept of 'abjection.')

The movies featured are Alien, The Exorcist, The Brood, The Hunger and Carrie.
posted by snuffleupagus at 6:27 AM on August 14, 2023

Maybe Videodrome for the abdomen-orifice?

More ridiculously, Species. Think, alien succubus. Natasha Henstridge's debut.
posted by snuffleupagus at 6:37 AM on August 14, 2023

Titane has a vagina that leaks engine oil, as part of more general pregnancy-based body horror - more central than Carrie, I'd say, but perhaps not as central as you need? It's more serious than camp.
posted by Ballad of Peckham Rye at 6:43 AM on August 14, 2023 [3 favorites]

I'm going to go with "Splice", "Dead Ringers" and "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover"
posted by effluvia at 7:05 AM on August 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Try: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VaginaDentata, Films — Live-Action

> it would be great if you could say if the movie is highly exploitative/misogynistic or more on the camp/serious end of things

Not always clear from that page.
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:06 AM on August 14, 2023

"Blood Diner" involves two brothers who run a vegetarian restaurant that secretly uses human flesh, all to have a party to resurrect the spirit of their goddess Sheetar. When she finally shows up, Sheetar has a giant vagina dentata / venus flytrap mouth in her abdomen. The whole affair is very campy, silly and B-movie exploitive, in all the best ways.
posted by mrphancy at 7:33 AM on August 14, 2023

"Tokyo Gore Police" has one that turns into an alligator.
posted by evilmonk at 8:48 AM on August 14, 2023

Vague memory, but a Pink Floyd movie (extended music video IIRC) I saw in college had an awful animated one of these.
posted by bluesky78987 at 9:27 AM on August 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

Would David Cronenberg's 'Drive' count? Per Wikipedia:
"James subsequently has another dalliance with Gabrielle, another of the group members whose legs are clad in restrictive steel braces and who has a vulva-like scar on the back of one of her thighs, an injury suffered in a crash. He tears her fishnet stockings open and penetrates her through the scar"
posted by skwm at 9:59 AM on August 14, 2023

Pretty sure the Chief's clumsy vagina (0:47ish) in Children's Hospital doesn't count? but it's still my favorite version of the trope.
posted by mimi at 11:11 AM on August 14, 2023

Not exactly but there's Femina ridens.

Would David Cronenberg's 'Drive' count?

You mean Cronenberg's 1996 Crash.
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:36 AM on August 14, 2023

Ginger Snaps might fit?
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 11:39 AM on August 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

In American Gods, Bilquis, goddess of Love, engulfs her lovers in a kind of reverse birth.
posted by SPrintF at 11:43 AM on August 14, 2023 [5 favorites]

If you're prepared to include comic books, Tarot #53 might be up your alley. It's known as the haunted vagina issue.
posted by Paul Slade at 11:50 AM on August 14, 2023

IMDB helpfully has a list of Vagina Dentata and Genital Monster (that list includes all forms of Genital Monsters).
posted by Ashwagandha at 11:50 AM on August 14, 2023

Can I vary a bit by offering a fantastic novel? Queen of Teeth by Haley Piper is just fantastic. I really hope it’s a movie soon.
posted by bluedaisy at 12:37 PM on August 14, 2023

I will add another novel, although I’ll note that it has been a long time since I read it, and don’t remember much of it… so while I don’t think it is misogynistic, take the recommendation with a grain of salt: The Haunted Vagina, by Carlton Mellick III.
posted by boisterousBluebird at 1:03 PM on August 14, 2023

I've never seen it but I think there may be a vagina dentata somewhere in the Cremaster Cycle movies?
posted by nouvelle-personne at 3:40 PM on August 14, 2023

I was recently reading Wikipedia's article on the sarlacc (the desert pit creature from Return of the Jedi). There I learned that at least two writers have claimed the sarlacc is a vagina dentata representation.

One of them is described as a "journalist and humor writer", so I'm guessing he was just trying to be humorous; I feel that his description of the "phallic" gangplank in the same scene bolsters my guess.

The other refers to Boba Fett as "[the] trilogy’s most arresting character", which tends to make me want to dismiss his opinion on all things in general. I know a lot of people think Boba Fett is great, but c'mon, he barely appears in the trilogy, barely has anything to say when he does appear, and does very little of anything.

So, all in all, my opinion on this theory is "Sometimes a giant monster that digs itself into a hole in the middle of the desert and sits there waiting for some creature to stumble into its mouth is just a giant monster that digs itself into a hole in the middle of the desert and sits there waiting for some creature to stumble into its mouth", but YMMV.
posted by Flunkie at 3:59 PM on August 14, 2023

Surely Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" is canon in this theme?
posted by toddforbid at 7:19 PM on August 14, 2023

96 Crash is a fucking masterpiece
posted by kittensofthenight at 2:52 PM on August 15, 2023