Green Room

Plot synopsis:
Four friends - Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Reece (Joe Cole), and Tiger (Callum Turner) - wake up in their van. They're part of the punk rock band The Ain't Rights. They slept all night with the engine on. Pat and Sam ride a bike to a nearby parking lot and siphon some gas to get them back on the road.The band meets up with a guy named Tad (David W. Thompson) for an interview in his apartment for his radio program. He asks the band what their "desert island band" would be. Reece, Sam, and Tiger think of theirs, but Pat can't. After the interview, the band plays a gig, but their pay is barely decent split between the four of them. Tad tells the band that he got them to do a gig in a spot where his cousin works, and that the pay is better.The band arrives at the venue, which happens to be a skinhead bar. They meet Tad's cousin Daniel (Mark Webber). The managers misspelled the band's name as "The Arent Rights". They go up to play a cover of "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", which doesn't go well with the crowd. They then play a different song, which doesn't get a much better reception.After the show, the band gets their money and are about to head out. Sam forgot her phone in the green room, and Pat goes to get it. When he enters, he sees two people, Werm (Brent Werzner) and Amber (Imogen Poots), standing over the body of Amber's friend Emily, dead with a knife in her head. Pat freaks out and runs out of the room while calling 911. Two bouncers, Big Justin (Eric Edelstein) and Gabe (Macon Blair), force Sam, Reece, and Tiger into the room. Their phones get taken away while Justin holds them all at gunpoint.Gabe gets two young skinheads together to stab each other in response to the 911 call as an officer arrives. The club's owner, Darcy (Patrick Stewart), arrives, and he says the band has to be dealt with.The band attacks Justin and take his gun, with Reece pinning him down and threatening to break his arm. They let him up and Reece holds the gun at him this time. The club experiences a power outage, inciting a brief panic among the group until Amber turns on her lighter and sparks up a cigarette, which she gives to Justin and tells the band to watch the cherry in case of anything suspicious. The lights then go back on.Darcy stands outside the green room to calmly discuss with the band on how to handle the situation. They agree to hand over the gun but keep the bullets. Pat still remains suspicious as Darcy says the cops have come and gone. Pat gets ready to hand Darcy the gun outside the room, as Darcy claims there is nobody else with him. This proves to be a lie when Amber sees another pair of feet through the vents. Before she can warn him, Reece tries to attack Darcy with a rod while Pat's arm gets slammed and cut up horribly. Reece pins Justin back down and snaps his arm, then places him in a chokehold until he passes out. Amber finishes him off by cutting him open with a box cutter.While Darcy and the skinheads plan to get rid of them, the group starts to break through the floorboards for a way out. This leads them to a bunker where the skinheads run a heroin operation. There's no exit down there, so the group returns to the room. Tiger helps wrap Pat's arm in duct tape. With no other options, the group plans to make a run for it while arming themselves with some kind of weapon. Tiger and Reece run out, but Tiger gets his throat ripped out by a pit bull, and Reece gets stabbed to death.
?Pat, Amber, and Sam have to stay in the room. Daniel and Gabe go to the room, where Amber tells Daniel that Werm killed Emily when Werm learned that Emily was going to run away with Daniel, and now Darcy is going to pin her murder on the band. Daniel guides the three downstairs to get some guns, but Daniel gets a buckshot to the face, courtesy of a skinhead. Pat kills the skinhead with a machete. The three run outside with a shotgun, facing the skinheads. Darcy tells them not to shoot at Amber. Sam gets shot in the leg and is then mauled by the pit bull.Pat and Amber go back to the room, now both frightened and tired. Pat tells an anecdote about a paintball tournament he participated in, which he compares to his current situation as he was outnumbered in both scenarios. He and Amber then come up with a plan to survive.Darcy sends two skinheads into the green room to kill Pat and Amber. They find Pat yelling nonsensically, now with his head shaved and his face with black paint on it. He hops into the bunker, and one skinhead follows. The other skinhead sits above keeping watch, unaware of Amber hiding in the couch. She crawls out and slits the skinhead's throat with the box cutter. The first skinhead looks for Pat with his shotgun. Amber distracts him by throwing the bodies of Emily, Justin, and the second skinhead down. Pat seizes the chance to grab the skinhead's gun, but they fight for it. Amber descends with the gun of the skinhead she killed and shoots the other one dead.Gabe goes to the room as Pat and Amber make their way back up. Remorseful for what's happened, he says he wants to go to jail. Pat and Amber force him out of the room with their guns pointed at him. They leave the club as the morning comes. They leave Gabe to find a phone while Pat and Amber go into the woods.The two come across Darcy, along with two other skinheads, trying to dispose of Sam, Tiger, and Reece's bodies, trying to come up with another story while also planning to blow up their van by putting a burning rag in the tank. Pat and Amber find them and shoot the henchman. Darcy attempts to walk away as he draws his gun, but he is shot dead as well.Pat and Amber sit down as they wait for the police to arrive. They spot the pit bull, who walks calmly and lays by his owner (the dog got shot earlier and was given a sedative to allow him a little more time to live). Pat then tells Amber he figured out his "desert island" band. Amber says to tell someone who gives a shit.

Tags: revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence

Review:
Don't let ANYONE spoil you ANYTHING about the film.Don't see the trailer when it comes out.Avoid clips and any promo materials they may release in the future.Go in knowing as little as possible.Just know that watching Green Room is like getting a shot of adrenaline that doesn't let up until the very end.It's fantastic, tense, and entertaining.Take my word for it.But also...Don't get too caught up in the hype.See the film when it comes out.You'll be glad you did.P.S. Jeremy Saulnier is definitely someone to look out for..
Green Room is perhaps the most stressed out I've ever been watching a film, and if I'm not clear, that's actually a good thing.
Since the beginning of the year, A24 has been unstoppable, putting out some of the most unique and incredible genre movies to be released in quite some time.Green Room is certainly violent and grim.
Though it doesn't fall deep in the category of originality or even groundbreaking in any sense, the intriguing fashion in which Saulnier executes this film and the immersive cinematography by Sean Porter used to capture the harrowing intensity and gloomy visuals result in a highly effective slasher treat; and even labeling the results effective feels like an understatement.
So this film follows a punk rock band consisting of twenty-something year olds including lead singer Tiger (played by Callum Turner), guitarist Sam (played by Alia Shawkat), bassist Pat (played by Anton Yelchin), and drummer Reece (played by Joe Cole).
Jeremy Saulnier grants this intensely violent thriller with a gift to not only leave viewers shocked and squirming in their seats, but present an atmosphere so visceral to the point of giving viewers the feeling of not watching a gruesome slasher, but a real-life event unfolding on camera; and the scariest aspect of this film how brutally realistic it turns out on screen.
Saulnier does such an amazing job on capturing the brutal intensity of each moment as the characters desperately battle their way through a violent bloodbath against a gang of white supremacists that threaten their young lives, and the camera work done by Sean Porter makes for great use to capture these dreadful moments.
Instead of relying on the usual slasher horror stereotypes like the jock, the pot smoker, or the hot chick, Saulnier populated the film with characters that feel very believable and the dialogue these characters deliver more often than not feels typical to real-life college kids, thus adding to the insane realism.
Though his character is limited to do nothing but giving orders, the portrayal Stewart lands as this character truly hits hard.Green Room is an exhilarating slasher-horror thriller with a constant sense of fright and thrills, making it one of the most spine-chilling horror films to be released in recent years.
I read an article that said this movie is one of the best movie so far this year, and i agree.'Green Room' is about a struggling punk band that got into a wrong place at wrong time when one of them, Pat, witness a murder after the show they got into at secluded part of the Pacific Northwest.
The performances of the movie is also great, Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots did a wonderful job, and so is the rest, except Patrick Stewart.
While the former is a much more personal story about one man on a revenge mission, Green Room covers a band who is accidentally thrust into a life or death situation at a skinhead bar after they come across a horrible crime.
Both are extremely disturbing takes on violence, I found Green Room to have a few more thrills and ideas being explored.Joining Saulnier is the late-great Anton Yelchin, Joe Cole (from Peaky Blinders fame), Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, and Patrick Stewart.
Saulnier paints them as inexperienced and terrified which gives the action scenes more weight.It's not for everyone as the violence is more brutal than something you would find in a Scorsese film, but it's one of the most impressive thrillers of 2016 with creativity and grittiness that is up there with the best of them.+Performances are grounded with realism+Saulnier's relentless direction+Shocking9.0/10.
After seeing all the great reviews i was really looking forward to this, So maybe i watched the wrong movie, because all i saw was a few kids locked in a room at the back of a nazi pub and then they wheeled Pat stewart in to mumble a few lines to them from the other side of the door and then a couple of things happened so i gave it 3 stars.
Let's run through it, point by point.The sound editing is muddled to the point where dialogue is vastly inaudible.The cinematography is hazy and dark, and NOT in a good way that would give the supposition that we are seeing a "disturbing" film with a grittiness to it.Every character is unlikeable to the extreme!!
Besides the notable cast, Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room is most likely closer to his 2007 horror comedy Murder Party than his sleeper 2014 thriller Blue Ruin.
From there they're locked inside the Green Room and has people all over the outside wanting to get in and kill them by any means necessary while the band and one other person who happens to be in the way who's NOT a neo-Nazi tries to get out.Pretty much the beginning and end of the movie are...
I can't really get my head around why this is so highly rated (yes 7.3/10 which it is as I write this on IMDb for a 'horror' is very highly rated).I'm guessing Anton Yelchin's recently dying had quite a bit to do with it, the fans giving the rating an extra boost in his honour or whatever but I could be wrong, I mean a lot of people like THE INVITATION (2015) which I thought was crap so it's possible that people actually liked it as much as that.Anyway, as far as the movie goes I expected something much more exciting and fast-paced, but fast-paced is definitely not the right word for this movie.Even though it has some surprise shock value scenes serving for jump-scares with some neat gore here and there, for the more part the pace is slow and the mood is more melancholic than it is intense.The acting is disappointing, nobody is flat out terrible but I wouldn't say that anyone was particularly good, everyone played their characters very low-key often mumbling, even in the what was supposed to be intense scenes.
And Patrick Stewart was not believable as the leader of the redneck Nazis.There's a scene where Anton Yelchin's character says something like 'Shouldn't we be in shock right now?', to which I thought to myself 'Yes, Anton, you should'.And I haven't even mentioned how stupid most of the characters are, but then I suppose that is true to the horror tradition..
Here you simply had no development of the characters or any point or reason for any of this to happen.Utterly dreary and boring, other than some slasher violence and gore, this is BARELY a horror movie.Avoid this movie, and seriously avoid ever watching a movie by this director.
I guess 2016 is a bad year for the movies industries so far , most movies are commercials to sell more tickets !This movie like hundreds you have already watched similar ideas nothing new also with no purpose group entering a place and getting trapped !When I search for ( Green Room worst ) ( Green Room bad ) in twitter I saw a lot of people agreed with my opinion and got similar taste of mine , I can't believe how much we have wasted our time in life to watch movies based on false high rating !!!
The late Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shaukat and Picard himself, Patrick Stewart showcase their talents in this nail bitter of a follow-up.A down on their luck punk rock band take a gig at a neo-nazi club.
'GREEN ROOM': Five Stars (Out of Five)A crime-thriller/horror flick, written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (the man who brought us the outstanding 'BLUE RUIN', 2 years ago).
Green Room has the same vicious, simplistic edge to it that director Jeremy Saulnier's 2011 thriller Blue Ruin had, but sharpened and honed to near perfection this time around.
A battle for survival ensues, while the group await the arrival of Darcy (Patrick Stewart), their chief in command.It's still a very effective formula in horror films to have characters who start off in fairly controlled situations where something happens, and events spiral out of control, leaving them in a terrifying predicament that they never even dreamed of.
And from this angle, Green Room had as much potential as any other, but Jeremy Saulnier's deathly drained piece is sadly an uninvolving, totally unsuspenseful thriller that you will struggle with to the end.It's as if the cast can sense how bad the screenplay and dialogue are, and most of it is barely audible, with all of them mumbling everything at a really low murmur, where you almost can't hear a word.
Whatever previous ideas of Patrick Stewart you may have either from his "Star Trek" or "X-Men" years immediately goes out the window once you see his performance in this film, I really didn't think he had it in him, what an excellent performance.Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, the story is pretty simple, it's about a struggling punk rock band in the Pacific Northwest, they do a small concert in a small white power bar, and what's supposed to be a quick gig turns into a nightmare when they stumble upon a murder.
At the wrong place at the wrong time is where they are and so now they're forced to bust their way out of the bar that's been surrounded by the lethal skinheads who want to eliminate any trace of evidence and witnesses.The minute the terror kicks in, GREEN ROOM's level of tension shoots up and remains there throughout the entire film, the violence keeps on humming, you just never know what sort of maniacal actions or retaliations that may occur, this is one of those films that consistently shocks you, leaving you to wonder who among the characters would survive because your guess is as good as the next person's.
Writer/director Jeremy Saulnier's follow-up to his critically- acclaimed Blue Ruin (2013) is a stunning exercise in survival horror.It begins with the Ain't Rights, a punk band on their way to a gig that turns out to be a waste of time.
I have watched this film about 6 times with different friends and family as I find it endlessly watchable, as it is gorgeously shot, with a great soundtrack, gut busting violence and a real bad ass vibe, while like his previous works doesn't glorify revenge or conflict and shows that it really is humanity's dumbest solution to our problems.
From the team that brought the world 'Blue Ruin', Jeremy Saulnier goes back to basics with 'Green Room.' A Punk-Rock band, in desperation of making some decent money while on the other side of the country, takes a gig at a somewhat desolate venue that frequents Neo-Nazis.
When they witness a murder in the Green Room, then the classic Horror/Thriller movie romp ramps up.The film opened TIFF's 2015 Midnight Madness category to great reactions.
A guy that could be your friendly neighbour, if it wasn't for...So Green Room is a gritty, realistic horror movie, well directed and acted.
The darkness levels, the shot framing, the approach to violence and gore – "Green Room" could have been a campy horror endeavor, but Saulnier never allows the film to lose its grip on reality.
A key negotiation scene between Pat and the club owner, Darcy (Patrick Stewart, whose gravitas only makes the film scarier) in which tensions run high but blood has not yet been shed, works, not for the particular scenario or dialogue, but the way our brains reel in trying to process the best positive outcome despite knowing full well things will get worse for the band.
fight back in life-threatening situations and has something insights into the human instinct and capacity for violence."Green Room" gets confusing at times and the characters embody attitudes and decision-making traits more so than complete people with motivations other than "not dying." It's a step up from the way most horror movies treat their characters, but not all that different.
This film is dripping with atmosphere, the cinematography is superb and the characters are realistic and grounded considering the fact the film centers on a punk band and neo Nazis it would be very easy for the writing to fulfill the stereotype that would no doubt be attached to such easily identifiable sub groups.This movie is fresh as daises, the characters are all believable and their reactions and the actions are all well fitting into the real world.
From the writer-director of Murder Party & Blue Ruin, Green Room is a neatly envisioned, extremely effective & unabashedly violent horror thriller that's absolutely remorseless with its content, brims with charged tension & makes excellent use of its foreboding ambiance to finish as a bone-chilling, machete-sharp cinema that offers no respite from the slaughter that ensues once things go south, and will effortlessly manage to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats throughout its runtime.Set in a remote club in the backwoods, the story of Green Room follows members of a punk rock band who have a gig in the area filled with neo-nazi skinheads.
The background score has a muted presence in the final print, but it's the effective use of silence that uplifts its tense mood to an unbearable level.Coming to the performances, Green Room packs a committed cast in Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawcat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner & Patrick Stewart, with all of them chipping in with sincere inputs.
Yelchin & Poots only get better in their given roles as the plot progresses, Stewart is in top form from the get-go, Macon Blair also has a supporting role, at which he does a very convincing job, and last but not the least, there is a pit bull in the movie that pretty much steals every scene it is in.On an overall scale, Green Room is a skilfully directed, finely scripted, deftly photographed, tightly edited, methodically paced, ably performed & calmly scored cinema that doesn't even try to do anything different with its genre(s) yet what turns it into a relentlessly thrilling experience is the way all its elements come together to work in near-perfect harmony.
It's easily one of the best of 2016 and I doubt it will fall out of my top 10 if not my top 5 by year's end.***Final thoughts: Probably more horrific that the horror I mentioned in this movie is the incredibly sad news that the lead, Anton Yelchin, just recently passed away abruptly at age 27JUST 10 days ago from this viewing and my review.
The opening sequence is dark but comical, clever edits and a story which immediately interests.And then Patrick Stewart appears, quite a surprise as he's without question the most well-known member of the cast for this movie, immediately you assume that it will be a great film.The gore was impressive, the effects of the injuries were just perfection and at no stage did CGI appear to present.
Well, this movie sure was worth mine, but all the while I wouldn't recommend it to everyone and maybe not even most people.If you're not lighthearted and you appreciate the proper use of (graphic) hard hitting violence in a movie, if you like it when a movie grabs you by the gut and won't let go, and if constant edge-of-the-seat feeling is something you seek in your viewing experience, then this movie is definitely for you.Well made, solid acting all around and (much like Saulnier's previous work, Blue Ruin) truly realistic this movie really is a must see in my book..
'Green Room' is one of my most anticipated films of the year due to the return of director Jeremy Saulnier, Patrick Stewart as a leader of a Neo Nazi group, and a punk band fighting Neo Nazis.
The Ain't Rights will then be forced to deal with the evil club owner, Darcy (the great Patrick Stewart), and his unrelenting minions.This viewer wasn't as blown away with this movie as some people, feeling that while the situation was reasonably riveting and the pacing very good, the story and the characters are mostly pretty thin.
Seeing the 7/10 rating and the glorifying first 4-5 reviews claiming Green Room to be "an adrenaline rush for beginning to end" and a great movie overall , I was totally disappointed while watching it .
The film Green Room gains even greater importance as one of the last works in which we see the actor Anton Yelchin, who died on June 19, 2016, at 27 years old, pressed by his own car against a concrete mailbox in the house where he lived.Directed and written by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin - 2013), Green Room tells the story of four young musicians, Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Akia Shawkat), Tiger (Callum Turner) and Reece (Joe Cole), members of a punk rock band called A'int Rights.
I mean who would not want to see Patrick Stewart in a horror movie :) But also Imogen Poots, as well as Anton Yelchin convinced me.
Since the release of his previous film "Blue Ruin" and even more so now with "Green Room", literally everyone is glorifying the writing and directing skills of Jeremy Saulnier and refers to him as one of the best young directors of a new generation.
"Green Room" isn't really a horror movie but a very brutal thriller, and there are quite a lot of sequences that will be hard to watch for squeamish folks.