The Dirty People is a dark comedy/thriller about Mia, a drug dealer from a well-off suburban past and family. Mia returns home to find that most of the people in her life are also harboring secrets just as dirty as her own. After accidentally killing a man in front of her childhood home, Mia scrambles to hide the body all while dealing with a cheating boyfriend keen to her secrets, an abusive mother, and a side piece experiencing a bad acid trip. The story is meant to be consistently suspenseful and tense, all while examining the nature of dysfunctional relationships.
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Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?

Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and befriends the younger boy, Bart, he begins a strange transformation and displays accusatory behavior towards Cathy and Christopher. When Christopher discovers their mysterious neighbor is, in fact, his mother Corrine Dollanganger, all of the family's long-hidden secrets are revealed in a tragic climax.