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GREEN ROOM Send This Review to a Friend
As lousy as the music of the punk band in “Green Room” is, its members don’t deserve the fate they encounter when they are stuck without gas on a trip in the northwest. The group, getting a gig that turns lethal, falls captive to a criminal, skinhead gang led by, of all people, Patrick Stewart, sporting a beard and looking grubby as Darcy.
“Green Room” is an awful bloody and bloody awful horror film, written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. It grows increasingly obnoxious as the life and death stakes escalate. Good luck if you choose to endure it.
The group under siege making up the band called Ain’t Right includes actors Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Callum Turner and Joe Cole. Will any of them get out alive from their entrapment? Will you care?
There is nothing clever about the descent into horror, just violence and gore piled on in a battle for survival against the fascistic enemy imprisoning the hapless musicians. An A24 release. Reviewed April 15, 2016.
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