A God-fearing bluesman takes a wild young woman captive in his farmhouse in an attempt to cure her of nymphomania after finding her severely beaten on the side of a road. The title of the film derives from the 1927 Blind Lemon Jefferson song, drawing numerous references to the Mississippi Blues movement. Shot in and around Memphis, Tennessee, Black Snake Moan premiered at Butt-Numb-A-Thon before being released in 2007, garnering mixed to positive reviews from critics, despite being a box-office bomb.