Chop Shop (2003)

Billed as “the story of one woman, one car, wrong town,” Simuel Denell Rankins’s ghoulishly effective horror vehicle Chop Shop (2003) is allegedly based on the diaries of a vindictive assault victim. When her car breaks down in the Deep South, Lisa (Shannon Michaels) has it towed to a rural garage, where a gang of redneck grease monkeys proceeds to play the part of leering sexual aggressors. When the heroine finally escapes, she decides she’d rather wield a wrench for skull bashing than trust the local fuzz. Rankins’s treatment of the material is surprisingly restrained, but he does offer a few choice glimpses of Michaels as she showers off post-attack.