(2010) "Are you ready for the next world?" Walking down a corridor in a dream, Smith (Thomas Dekkar) notices his mother, friends, and a few faces he's never seen before as he approaches a black door behind which is a red dumpster.

A Southern California college student with an "undeclared" sexual orientation (somewhere between 3 and 4 on the Kinsey scale of zero to six), Smith lusts for his roommate Thor (Chris Zylka), a straight ("he was putting a load in some pinhead's dryer last night"), blond surfer dude who arranges his closet-full of flip-flops in color coordination. Gay sex is raw with familiar plumbing (less mysterious than with a female).

The Messiah (James Duval), his pothead RA, hands Smith an anonymous message: "You are the chosen son." Smith's sardonic ("college is just an intermission between high school and the rest of your life. Four years of having sex, making stupid mistakes, and experiencing stuff. It's a pit stop, not the second coming of the Messiah") best friend Stella (Haley Bennett), a lesbian, takes him to a party where she hooks up with gorgeous Lorelei (Roxane Mesquida), leaving Smith, who makes acquaintance with London (Juno Temple) in the bathroom after a red-headed girl barfs on his shoe.

London, who finds queer guys hot, takes Smith, who has consumed a cookie laced with drugs, home with her. Outside Smith sees the red-head again being chased by three guys in animal masks; they stab and kill her.

Lorelei, whom Smith had recognized in his dream before setting eyes on her at the party, is a witch and insatiable sex maniac; she stalks Stella. After Smith shows London a photo of the red-headed Madeleine O'Hara on his computer screen, she recalls having been in a sociology class with the girl. An item mentions a headless corpse found in a dumpster.

Something freaky's going on in director/writer Gregg Araki's sci-fi comic mystery that's "nuttier than squirrel shit." On the beach sunbathing in the nude, Smith accepts hunk Hunter's invitation ("after five minutes you're downloading his hard drive in the back of a van," says Stella aghast: "You're a slut!"); he enters the dorm room to find Thor and Thor's friend Rex wrestling in their underwear.

Taking a curious interest in Rex, the nymphish London scolds the boy as he's performing cunilingus: "It's a vagina, not a bowl of spaghetti." Smith receives an e-mail attachment with a video invitation to meet shy Oliver. For his 19th birthday both Stella and London present him with special gifts.

When Stella tells Smith that she's broken off her relationship with scary, supernatural Lorelei, Smith asks: "Are you worried?" She answers: "Does Mel Gibson hate Jews?" The kids have got themselves involved with a cult whose supreme leader, the author of An Ideal Living, has a master plan with a special purpose for Smith.

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