Frighteningly good

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2018)

A hard-up band of punk rock musicians takes a gig in a white-supremacist venue in rural Oregon . After accidentally witnessing something they were not meant to see, their lives are changed forever.
"Green Room" succeeds as a suspenseful thriller. With one group of people pitted against another, the audience is left to wonder who will end up alive by the movie's end. It also reminds one of other movies that made a part of rural America into hell-on-earth. "The Hateful Eight" and "Winter's Bone" are two such movies that come to mind.
As there is minimal characterization, this film can have only so much impact. Also, little is done with the white supremacist element of the story. But there is still good entertainment value in the film - at least for those of us who don't live in or near anywhere like the setting of this movie.