Taut and tense thriller; Stewart gives good bad guy chillingly so

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2016)

GREEN ROOM (2016) *** Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, David W. Thompson, Imogen Poots, Mark Webber, Kai Lennox, Macon Blair. Taut and tense thriller about a young punk rock group who take a dark detour accepting a gig for a white supremacist sect off-the-beaten track where things take a turn for the worst involving a murder and a truly nightmarish plunge into survival. Filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier - who wrote and directed - makes the proceedings at hand from jarring to ultimately innate seemingly improvised on-the-spot momentum. Stewart gives good bad guy chillingly so as the compound's cold blooded leader.