Punk Rockers vs. Neo-Nazis in Red-Band Trailer for GREEN ROOM
I had the opportunity to see Green Room at Sundance recently, and it was one of the best movies that I saw at the film festival. It is a hardcore film that is absolutely brutal. The movie stars Anton Yelchin as a punk rock guitarist who ends up playing a gig at an isolated neo-Nazi club in Oregon. Through a series of unfortunate events, he finds himself a witness to a murder, and he and his band get locked in a bloody battle for survival against the leader of these neo-Nazis, who is awesomely played by Patrick Stewart.
We have a red-band trailer for the film that gives you just a little taste of the crazy intensity that this movie has to offer. Green Room was written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, who previously directed the incredible Blue Ruin. Green Room is his follow-up film, and I loved it! You can read my full review of the film here. One of the things I liked about this movie most is that it kept you guessing until the very end. This is one of those movies that was completely unpredictable for me.
Green Room opens in limited release on April 15th before getting a wide release on April 29th,.
GREEN ROOM is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band. Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown. Intense, emotional, and ingeniously twisted, Green Room is genre filmmaking at its best and most original. Saulnier continues to build his reputation as one of the most exciting and distinctive directors working today, with a movie that’s completely different from his previous, highly acclaimed Blue Ruin, but which is just as risk-taking and even more full of twists. The entire cast deliver first-rate performances, but Patrick Stewart gives a transformative and brilliantly devious turn as Darcy-elegant yet lethal, droll yet terrifying, Stewart makes the film simply unforgettable.