The inbred lowlifes in this B - movie black comedy are members of the Smith family, a clan of troglodytes in a seedy
Texas trailer park replete with vicious barking
dogs on chains, who swing into ruthless high gear from the very first scene, when penny - ante drug
dealer Chris Smith (a game turn by Emile Hirsch, who has grown from the appealing, open - faced kid in The Emperor's Club into a scabby, hirsute roughneck) arrives in a torrential rainstorm and is greeted at the screen door by his father's new wife Sharla with a female full - frontal.