Wednesday, March 13, 2019

"So, in a tournament, I snap his arms or he taps out and we all go get burgers."


St. Patrick's Day is coming up and I'm in the mood for something green.

This week's Thursday Thriller is Green Room.



It has nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day. Instead, this 2015 Jeremy Saulnier film is about a hardcore punk band that siphoned gas all across the country to get to a gig that was canceled. The promoter lined them up a backup gig that paid them each six dollars and some change. To make things right he calls his cousin and gets them booked at a skinhead bar. Sounds like a shit gig, but it pays $350, so they take it.

They open with a pretty good cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" and survive their set unscathed. Just as it looks like they've survived the ordeal and gotten paid, Sam (Alia Shawkat) realizes she forgot the band's phone in the green room. Pat (Anton Yelchin) goes to get it and discovers one the neo-Nazis has stabbed a woman in the head. He calls the police, but the skinheads take his phone and detain them while they go get the bar owner and spiritual leader Darcy (Patrick Stewart) to tell them how to sweep the whole thing under the rug.

There's angry music, gun play, dog attacks; arms get fucked up. It's a tense movie.

Green Room streams on Netflix.

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