Green Room

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Green Room is a thriller written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin). The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year and stars Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, and Patrick Stewart.

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.

“The concept for Green Room has been gestating for decades,” says Saulnier. “The better part of my high-school years was spent making zombie films and playing in punk bands. I wasn’t actually a musician, so I yelled into a microphone while my more talented friends played the instruments. For a time, I was as deeply connected to the sound, the aesthetic, and the physicality of punk and hardcore as I was the creative pursuit of filmmaking. It felt very natural to merge these two worlds in Green Room.”

Green Room is rated 18A.