Green Room was a big surprise, a small budget movie made with a passion for low-budget gritty & violent grindhouse cinema of the 70's & early 80's for its influence, & even some early 90's genre flicks.
A simple setup story about an indie rock group travelling around America trying to get any gigs they can anywhere they can. This leads the grungy rock group the "Aint-Rights" to an isolated club full of Nazi-skinheads & hostility. The Ain't-Rights are a decent bunch of early 20's rockers that consists of three guys & one girl & all very likeable characters. Anton Yelchin (Rest In Peace to an excellent actor) is excellent as Pat, the deep thinker of the band, dude was truly a great actor that could've gone on to do so much amazing work in movies (He did a lot in the time he had though) & the others of the band are all damn fine a actors that each deliver strong performances & as said are all likeable (which is very rare in ensemble films).
The Aint-Rights perform some songs in the dingy Nazi bar & after they head to the Green Room (a chillout waiting area for bands & staff) & walk in on a murder scene. From here the film gets extremely tense as our band teams up with a local girl to escape from the Green Room & get out the Club alive. The Nazi members want to Silence the band for what they've seen & so an intense battle of wits begins but who will out smart who? & will anyone survive the night.
A creepily in-control & cold as ice performance from Patrick Stewart as the main villain of the piece, he's excellent as the head leader of the Nazi movement, he controls everything that happens & waits patiently for his victims.
There's a slight feel of that 70's grit & grime here like say Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter's original) & other cult flicks of that type. Green Room is a survival Thriller that's a low-budget B-movie at heart & loved that about it. Great cinematography, especially the rich greens of the surrounding forests & the dark moody interiors of the dingy club. Think From Dusk Till Dawn (1995) but without Vampires, Killer Nazi nutters instead. Green Room fits in with genre films like Judgment Night (1993) & Trespass (1992), survival thriller's that take place over one night.
The standout star (& character: Amber ) of the movie was Imogen Poots, she's one bad-ass smart-thinking & cool character here, she's excellent.
Who will survive this night? There's plenty of blood-soaked realistic violence that's often shocking & ferocious. Each gun shot is impactful with special practical effects that are beautifully shot, violence never looked cooler. Green Room is grounded in its gritty realism that's totally helped by the superb practical effects.
Truly an exciting, thrilling late-night survival flick. This is one ultra-violent ulta-cool thriller.
A simple setup story about an indie rock group travelling around America trying to get any gigs they can anywhere they can. This leads the grungy rock group the "Aint-Rights" to an isolated club full of Nazi-skinheads & hostility. The Ain't-Rights are a decent bunch of early 20's rockers that consists of three guys & one girl & all very likeable characters. Anton Yelchin (Rest In Peace to an excellent actor) is excellent as Pat, the deep thinker of the band, dude was truly a great actor that could've gone on to do so much amazing work in movies (He did a lot in the time he had though) & the others of the band are all damn fine a actors that each deliver strong performances & as said are all likeable (which is very rare in ensemble films).
The Aint-Rights perform some songs in the dingy Nazi bar & after they head to the Green Room (a chillout waiting area for bands & staff) & walk in on a murder scene. From here the film gets extremely tense as our band teams up with a local girl to escape from the Green Room & get out the Club alive. The Nazi members want to Silence the band for what they've seen & so an intense battle of wits begins but who will out smart who? & will anyone survive the night.
A creepily in-control & cold as ice performance from Patrick Stewart as the main villain of the piece, he's excellent as the head leader of the Nazi movement, he controls everything that happens & waits patiently for his victims.
There's a slight feel of that 70's grit & grime here like say Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter's original) & other cult flicks of that type. Green Room is a survival Thriller that's a low-budget B-movie at heart & loved that about it. Great cinematography, especially the rich greens of the surrounding forests & the dark moody interiors of the dingy club. Think From Dusk Till Dawn (1995) but without Vampires, Killer Nazi nutters instead. Green Room fits in with genre films like Judgment Night (1993) & Trespass (1992), survival thriller's that take place over one night.
The standout star (& character: Amber ) of the movie was Imogen Poots, she's one bad-ass smart-thinking & cool character here, she's excellent.
Who will survive this night? There's plenty of blood-soaked realistic violence that's often shocking & ferocious. Each gun shot is impactful with special practical effects that are beautifully shot, violence never looked cooler. Green Room is grounded in its gritty realism that's totally helped by the superb practical effects.
Truly an exciting, thrilling late-night survival flick. This is one ultra-violent ulta-cool thriller.