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 torrid affair eventually culminates in violence, but plenty of heat is also generated by Black’s co-star Selene Luna, another sexy participant in the circus’s collection of erotic curios.