There are a few things that on paper that don't work yet in reality, are the most daring pieces of cinema because of their daring ability to do the impossible. Emma Watson playing an introverted teen? It worked in NERVE. Robin Williams to play a disturbed stalker? ONE HOUR PHOTO proved it could work? Patrick Stewart playing a villain? Woah, hold it right there! The guy who played Captain Picard, Professor X and Avery Bullock in AMERICAN DAD, a hero to many could never turn sinister for a gritty horror film, some things are just too unbelievable.. Until now.

 

When a punk rock band are given an opportunity to play a gig when money is tight they take it with no questions asked but when they roll up at a white supremacist holdup the threat of the world they are about to enter quickly envelopes them.

 

Things don't head to a good start when their first song is Nazi Punks Fuck Off but things take a more sinister turn when they burst into a crime scene caused by the locals. The late Anton Yelchin accompanied by Imogen Poots, Joe Cole, Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner battle to survive the night as the neo-Nazi's close in on the witnesses.

 

GREEN ROOM is a tense cat-and-mouse thriller that is full of pulse pounding moments and great chemistry as the band fight against an arsenal of murder hungry locals with no intention to let them leave the venue alive. 

 

Jeremy Saulner's follow up to BLUE RUIN is no less gritty and is a conclusive thriller to add to his resume. If there's a go to person for a white knuckled ride of aggression and violence, he is the man.

 

There is no light in GREEN ROOM as every scene is dimmed by the lights of gunfire or the sight of limbs being ripped apart, this is certainly a blood soaked thriller and one that is played well by its cast. Stewart is menacing and becomes a believable antagonist to the punk band in this fight to the death. His resilience to flush out the bandmates is brutal and unnerving but the real star is the youthful talent at the oposing side to a veteran of cinema. It is the survival instinct of Yelchin that proves once more that his death earlier this year was a powerful waste of such a talent. With ODD THOMAS and BURYING THE EX becoming cult classics, it is GREEN ROOM that shows his sheer talent and what could have been if it wasn't for his untimely accident.

 

Survival horror does not come as brutal as this and GREEN ROOM is a must see for hardened horror fans.