Green Room is where a punk band comes versus Neo-Nazi skinheads, where blood is shed, limbs are slashed and necks are mauled, heads are blown and a scene of disembowel is performed. A new movie of Jeremy Saulnier that will leave you in shock and awe for multitude reasons that vary from a clever plot, calm performance, visuals abundance, music backtrack associated with violence and brutality that are displayed craftily and shockingly. In Green Room the gruesome comes to serve the emotional terror of people struggling to survive a doomed situation that merely happened for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The movie follows "Ain't right", a rock punk band members who are down on their luck from the first scene. Out of petrol, out of money, they use their ruse to solve the first setback and continue a long unsuccessful tour leading them to a remote old club run by Neo-Nazis in the backwoods in Oregon to perform a final gig they got by chance.
In this venue and with their first perform of " Nazi punks fuck off", the viewer prepares to witness the deadly fight that will begin between the two and which materializes just before the departure of the band when accidentally one member finds a dead body on the floor in the green room where he returns to fetch a phone. Against their will, the band members are locked and trapped by the supremacists in the same room where they will wait and prepare for their life-death fight of survival.
The filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier builds up slowly the tension from inside the room and outside the club. Preys and predators will switch roles consecutively and the cunning will win. A clever plot that won't disappoint the viewer and shows no holes nor missing parts. The horror is flavored with a dark humor shown in the dialogues and acts. Performance to be praised with Patrick Stewart starring the maniac owner of the club that won't hesitate to wipe out everyone who comes across from band members to even the audience if necessary, just to protect a shady business. He is the calm calculating narcissistic psychopath. The visuals are artistic about the settings. A remote club, a tattooed audience, a confined crammed room, a bleak atmosphere, details in abundance in every corner all this associated with a hard rock music, violent language and dogs barks. In addition to that, the thrash heavy metal and their death shrieks are cleverly added soundtracks to create a sense of the forthcoming ugly end of the characters from both sides.
The gore and brutality are intelligently used in the sole aim of causing emotional shock to shake the viewers to relate them more with the characters; to feel what the ordinary people feel when they come face to face with an extraordinary situation. When the survival evolves into killing and hurting and mauling with box cutters, machetes, gunshots and pit bulls.
Finally I should add, in my opinion, the director's choice to make the final scene similar to the opening one, in the woods with the same materials, is a deliberate act to tell the viewer from the beginning that the cunning will rule out the fittest, always.
In brief I loved Green Room, it made me discover Jeremy Saulnier's work. Having said that, his other movies will be definitely on my radar.
Recommended with a must to the ones who can savour good horror thrillers with gore à la Banshee.
The movie follows "Ain't right", a rock punk band members who are down on their luck from the first scene. Out of petrol, out of money, they use their ruse to solve the first setback and continue a long unsuccessful tour leading them to a remote old club run by Neo-Nazis in the backwoods in Oregon to perform a final gig they got by chance.
In this venue and with their first perform of " Nazi punks fuck off", the viewer prepares to witness the deadly fight that will begin between the two and which materializes just before the departure of the band when accidentally one member finds a dead body on the floor in the green room where he returns to fetch a phone. Against their will, the band members are locked and trapped by the supremacists in the same room where they will wait and prepare for their life-death fight of survival.
The filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier builds up slowly the tension from inside the room and outside the club. Preys and predators will switch roles consecutively and the cunning will win. A clever plot that won't disappoint the viewer and shows no holes nor missing parts. The horror is flavored with a dark humor shown in the dialogues and acts. Performance to be praised with Patrick Stewart starring the maniac owner of the club that won't hesitate to wipe out everyone who comes across from band members to even the audience if necessary, just to protect a shady business. He is the calm calculating narcissistic psychopath. The visuals are artistic about the settings. A remote club, a tattooed audience, a confined crammed room, a bleak atmosphere, details in abundance in every corner all this associated with a hard rock music, violent language and dogs barks. In addition to that, the thrash heavy metal and their death shrieks are cleverly added soundtracks to create a sense of the forthcoming ugly end of the characters from both sides.
The gore and brutality are intelligently used in the sole aim of causing emotional shock to shake the viewers to relate them more with the characters; to feel what the ordinary people feel when they come face to face with an extraordinary situation. When the survival evolves into killing and hurting and mauling with box cutters, machetes, gunshots and pit bulls.
Finally I should add, in my opinion, the director's choice to make the final scene similar to the opening one, in the woods with the same materials, is a deliberate act to tell the viewer from the beginning that the cunning will rule out the fittest, always.
In brief I loved Green Room, it made me discover Jeremy Saulnier's work. Having said that, his other movies will be definitely on my radar.
Recommended with a must to the ones who can savour good horror thrillers with gore à la Banshee.
