“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.
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