Punk Band Needs To Fight Their Way Out of a Neo-Nazi Venue – ‘Green Room’ Gets a Red Band Trailer

I’ve been watching director Jeremy Saulnier’s career since Murder Party. In 2013, I got to see Blue Ruin at Fantastic Fest (saw it twice). It was a film Saulnier and actor Macon Blair scratched and clawed to make. Saulnier maxed out credit cards, put his house on the line and even did a Kickstarter for the film. The film was made, accepted to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, made a few film festival stops and has tons of critical acclaim surrounding it. It was one of my favorite films that I saw in 2013. Top 5 material, no question. His follow-up, Green Room, not only nabbed Patrick Stewart and gave him a quietly-menacing role, but the film struck the same emotions that I had with Blue Ruin. Green Room found its way into my favorite films I saw last year. A24 will be distributing the film in April and I really hope it makes a stop here in St. Louis because it is such an amazingly tense film that really needs to be seen on the big screen. It will be released in New York and Los Angeles on April 15th and then it is going wide on April 29th.

GREEN ROOM is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band. Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown. Intense, emotional, and ingeniously twisted, Green Room is genre filmmaking at its best and most original. Saulnier continues to build his reputation as one of the most exciting and distinctive directors working today, with a movie that’s completely different from his previous, highly acclaimed Blue Ruin, but which is just as risk-taking and even more full of twists. The entire cast deliver first-rate performances, but Patrick Stewart gives a transformative and brilliantly devious turn as Darcy-elegant yet lethal, droll yet terrifying, Stewart makes the film simply unforgettable.