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It's not that Black Snake Moan is provocatively salacious, but rather that it's poorly structured.

GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Black Snake Moan. 2007

"No two ways about it: Black Snake Moan is racist, by acute and cumulative degrees," argues Nathan Kosub at Reverse Shot.

GreenCine Daily: Black Snake Moan. 2007

Updates, 3/1: Marc Savlov talks with Brewer for the Austin Chronicle, where Marjorie Baumgarten writes, "Black Snake Moan is to the blues what Pulp Fiction is to the dime-store novels: a fleshed-out personification of the genre's tropes."

GreenCine Daily: Black Snake Moan. 2007

"Whatever criticisms we may level against Brewer, there's no denying Black Snake Moan is unlike any other film made recently," writes Matt Singer at IFC News.

GreenCine Daily: Black Snake Moan. 2007

Though Black Snake Moan is unadulterated deep-fried silliness ...,

GreenCine Daily: Black Snake Moan. 2007

"Drenched in explosively charged imagery, Black Snake Moan is exploitation cinema of the grungiest, nastiest, and thus finest order, delivering a volatile batch of extreme sex, extreme profanity, and — most of all — extreme racial and gender dynamics," writes Nick Schager in Slant.

GreenCine Daily: Black Snake Moan. 2007

Then off to LL's and the Charming English Cottage of Death, nice place, interesting conversations. jason0x21 came as a zombie beat poet with a rendition of "Moan" - the inarticulate undead's reply to Ginsburg's "Howl".

endless night, muahaha badger 2005

So when I look at the stories of Flannery O’Connor or Faulkner or John Fergus Ryan, or especially Tennessee Williams, I feel that Black Snake Moan is at home with those particular narratives, because there is an element of camp, an element of exploitation.

Go Moan 2007

So when I look at the stories of Flannery O’Connor or Faulkner or John Fergus Ryan, or especially Tennessee Williams, I feel that Black Snake Moan is at home with those particular narratives, because there is an element of camp, an element of exploitation.

February 2007 2007