Firecracker (2004)

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.