You'd be forgiven for thinking that the town of Suspicious River lay a few miles downstream from Twin Peaks. Same rolling hills and r🍬emote air, same home-grown folks with troubles beneath the surface. Here it's motel receptionist Leila (Molly Parker), spicing up a strained marriage by whoring herself to customers, who's likely to become the next Laura Palmer.

Parker and writer-director Lynne Stopkewich previously collaborated on Kissed, a dark but surpr💞isingly unexploitative take on necrophilia. In other hands Suspicious River could be a porno plot, but Stopkewich refuses to dwell on nudity or use scenes of rape and ab♈use for titillation.

Unfortunately, Suspicious River has 🃏none of the vitality or originality of its predecessor. Its lack of explicitness, while laudable in theory, seems symptomatic📖 of how the movie as a whole fails to challenge the audience on any significant level.