Review of Green Room (2016) by Danny R — 11 Jul 2016

Jeremy Sauiner's gripping, tension-filled, well-executed horror thriller. It concerns a poor punk rock band of friends who tour diva bars and hole in the wall taverns. In desperation for some money they unwisely take a gig at seedy desolate venue which is filled with low-life rednecks and ruthless neo-Nazis white-supremacist skinheads.

Their concert goes well enough, but then they witness a brutal murder, that is when the terror kicks into high gear in this pulse-pounding film. The talented late character actor Anton Yelchin delivers a superlative performance that is full of believable vulnerability as the young rocker who along with his band mates, well-played by Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner, must somehow survive this deadly nightmare of an evening.

But film's most powerful and effective performance is that of the great Sir Patrick Stewart as Darcy Banker the merciless owner of the club and the leader of the skinheads, he wants to eliminate all traces of evidence of the murder and any living witnesses.

Stewart makes a grand villain with his dispassionate voice and his ice-cold demeanor which is truly chilling. Yelcin and his band mates will have a hell of a time against Stewart's murderous thugs that will become a ultra-violent, highly suspenseful, infinitely disturbing cinematic odyssey of pure terror.

Highly Recommended.