Under the myth of the American dream lurks a dark, seedy side — a gutter littered with broken hearts and despair.

Thursday night. New Orleans. The moon’s in the last quarter.

Out of the blue and into the black describes the descent of a wildly dysfunctional family in this rambling, nihilistic film by Dennis Hopper.

Staring them down, daring them down, in the crosshairs of a feral gaze.

A paralegal searches for her missing dog, but is she the one being hunted?