Year: 2015
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Green Room is the third feature from Jeremy Saulnier who’s last movie was the fabulous revenge thriller Blue Ruin. This is a thriller/horror which grips from the off and doesn’t let go. It follows punk band The Ain’t Rights slepping around the bars and dives earning next to nothing when they get a gig in the backwoods playing to a load of Right wing skinheads. At this point we get a rather good cover of the Dead Kennedy’s Nazi Punks Fuck Off but after that a shocking discovery ups the ante. From then on the band are in a fight for survival with limited weapons and no way out.
We really enjoyed this in a gruesome watching through your fingers way. The violence is ultra realistic and shocking when it happens. But there is a dark wit running through the film which is very well played. The performances are excellent with the nervous bassist played by the late Anton Yelchin and the cold calculating club owner Patrick Stewart standing out
A great horror that has been pared to the bone and well worth the 90 odd minutes.
Might appeal to people who enjoyed:
Last House on the Left, Assault on Precinct Nine, Friday the 13th. In fact lots of 70s exploitation films
Kid Dynamite says
I missed this in the cinema. Sounds right up my street
ip33 says
Thanks for your Bone Tomahawk recommendation, we thought it was brilliant.
Big_Si says
Waited over a year for this to appear on the big screen and finally saw it when previewed at the Glasgow Film Festival at the start of this year. I was well prepared for the violent bits, so it was fun to hear the “shock and awe” from the rest of the audience.
“Nazi Punks….” indeed đ