Punk Rock Horror

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2019)

Does Jeremy Saulnier have a thing with colors? First he gives us Blue Ruin, then he gave us Green Room. He's got a whole career ahead of him and I hope he covers every spectrum of the rainbow. But I digress. Green Room is good, but you need the stomach and patience to sit through it. Whereas Blue Ruin was brooding and violent, Green Room is less brooding and way more violent. The plot of the film is ingenious in it's own right. A punk band performs a gig at a skinhead compound and are held hostage in a night of terror. The band is in too deep. They've seen too much, and the skinheads want to do anything to bury the evidence, even if it means killing them all. Dark, dark, dark. Darkness consumes this movie. Either the subject matter begins to grow on you, or it doesn't. But I went with it, and for that, I wasn't disappointed. Also, kudos to Saulnier for casting Patrick Stewart and forcing him to cover up his English accent, with hilarious results.