Green Room: Brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun

After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads

Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation,  X-Men: First Class ) stars in this horror-thriller 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, rundown 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. Director Jeremy 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.

Green Room in theathers April, 29.

Stewart makes the film simply unforgettable

CAST
Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, Erid Edelstein, Macon Blair, Kai Lennox.

Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Written by Jeremy Saulnier
Produced by Anish Savjani, Neil Kopp, Victor, Moyers
Executive Producers Daniel Hammond, Gabriel Hammond, Vincent
Savino
Co-­‐Producers Macon Blair, Brian Johnston
Director ofPhotography Sean Porter
Production Designer Ryan WarrenSmith
Editor Julia Bloch
Music By Brooke Blair, Will Blair
Costume Designer Amanda Needham
Casting by Avy Kaufman