I would highly recommend Green Room if you love intense thrillers. Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat are members of a punk rock band. They get a last minute gig at a club out in the boonies, and realize the owners are Neo-Nazi Skinheads when they arrive. They just want to play the show and get the hell out of there.
One band member forgets their phone charging in the green room, and when they go back to get it, they discover a girl murdered on the floor. They are then trapped in the Green Room while the people running the club figure out what to do with them. And who owns the club? Patrick Stewart in an absolutely chilling performance.
I saw this film at Sundance in January and I was not prepared for how relentless this film would be. I was on the edge of my seat nearly the entire hour and a half of the film.
To give you a sense, this is what Patrick Stewart tweeted about reading the script the first time:
The #GreenRoomMovie script was so unsettling that I poured myself a scotch before I could finish it. pic.twitter.com/oqieLy1TSy
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) April 22, 2016
Four stars out of five. The film is at times very gruesome, but it is a tense taut thriller. Green Room is writer/director Jeremy Saulnier‘s third feature film. I can’t wait to see what he does next!
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