Good Horror-Thriller

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2016)

Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller film directed by Jeremy Saulnier and starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole and Patrick Stewart.
The movie tells the story of a punk rock band that play a gig in a neo-nazi skinhead bar, but when they witness something they shouldn't have seen, the skinheads trap them in a room, and so begins a cat and mouse game between the members of the band the skinheads. Jeremy Saulnier directs this movie beautifully, creating a lot of tension and suspense, but also offering a great deal of violence, reminiscent of Tarantino.
All the performances in the movie are very good, especially with great praise for Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots. But the one who really stands out in the movie is Patrick Stewart as Darcy, the leader of the white supremacists. It's great when you see an actor who usually plays wise, good characters turn into such a chilling villain. His performance is great because it never goes over the top, but it's subdued throughout the movie.
The tension in this movie is mostly created by the fact that most of the plot takes place in a single location. You get a sense a dread while witnessing how the members of the band try to survive, especially since they don't really have a place where they can escape to. They don't really have the survival skills necessary when dealing with a pack of maniacal skinheads that want to kill them. Aside from the tension, the movie is also very gory. If you're faint of heart, or simply not used with scenes of graphic violence, you will turn your head away from time to time. Green Room is one of the better horror movies I've seen in a while, mostly because it doesn't focus on easy jump scares or pointless violence. Jeremy Saulnier creates a very unease experience, and the performances work really really well. Green Room deserves a 8.5 out of 10!
Also, in closing, I would like to talk a little about Anton Yelchin. So far, this is his last movie to be released this year, considering his death on the 19th of June. It saddens me so much when I see such promising talent go at such a young age. I won't lie and say he was my favorite actor, but I will always remember him in a movie that I love very much and hold very close to my heart, and that's Hearts in Atlantis, in which he co-starred and held his own with Anthony Hopkins. He was only 12 when he made that movie, showing great talent from such a young age but also evolving in a great adult actor. You will be missed, Rest in Peace!