Described as “the mutant love child of
Tod Browning’s
Freaks (1932) and
David Lynch’s
Blue Velvet (1986),” there’s something undeniably creepy about
Steve Balderson’s
Firecracker (2004). Set in and around a traveling circus that makes a stop on the windswept Kansas plains, Balderson’s indie tells of an abused teen (
Jak Kendall) who finds himself drawn to a kinky sideshow attraction (
Karen Black). Their
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