The Dark Dancer

This energetic but generic erotic thriller features ubiquitous straight-to-video star Shannon Tweed as an expert on female sexuality.

A pair of prologues detail the unhappy childhood of Margaret Simpson. At age seventeen (Amy Lindsay) she seduces her stripper mother's (Lisa Pescia) piggish boyfriend Ramone (Francesco Quinn), then watches her mother stab him repeatedly in revenge.

Seventeen years later, Margaret is now Dr. Simpson (Shannon Tweed), a best-selling author and college lecturer on women's sexual issues. She is drawn to her only male student, Ron (Kevin Wickham), who pursues her relentlessly. Her defenses are weakened by her increasingly unsatisfyin...