Christina Ricci in Black Snake Moan (2007)

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Samuel L. Jackson is Lazarus, a bitter, broken-hearted Mississippi bluesman who becomes hell-bent on acting as a conduit for the Lord's righteousness here on earth. Christina Ricci is Rae, a slutted-up, stripped-down wild child deposited—half-nude and unconscious—on the backwoods road outside Lazarus's cabin. The two meet. One ends up attempting to redeem the other—by chaining her to his radiator until she's fit to clean up her act. So goes the Southern Gothic grotesquerie of the skinstant cult classic Black Snake Moan (2007). While Jackson jams on his guitar and preaches for the betterment of mankind, Ricci writhes and sweats and repeatedly slips out of her ragged, barely-there-to-begin-with wardrobe. It's a deep-fried, flesh-friendly hoot(ers)-a-nanny, slung up right stylish by writer-director Craig Brewer, fresh off of Hustle & Flow (2005). Black Snake Moan will make your snake long.