Cole Clay // Film Critic
We have been lauding Jeremy Saulnier’s GREEN ROOM since we saw Patrick Stewart ham it up to the sky in it just over a week ago at Fantastic Fest (read our full review here), where it also won the coveted audience award. While you wait to witness the greatness of this red bucket of fun, you can now officially count down the days until its released in a theater near you!
A24 has confirmed that the film is going to be receiving a rolling release date. This is always a good sign from a studio, showing they are confident in the success of their film. GREEN ROOM will be opening in limited release April 1, 2016 before going nationwide April 15, 2016— so now you can catch a stellar flick instead of filing your taxes.
The following was released by A24:
“GREEN ROOM is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band.”
“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.
Intense, emotional, and ingeniously twisted, GREEN ROOM is genre filmmaking at its best and most original. Saulnier continues to build his reputation as one of the most exciting and distinctive directors working today, with a movie that’s completely different from his previous, highly acclaimed Blue Ruin, but which is just as risk-taking and even more full of twists. The entire cast deliver first-rate performances, but Patrick Stewart gives a transformative and brilliantly devious turn as Darcy—elegant yet lethal, droll yet terrifying, Stewart makes the film simply unforgettable.”
Here is the NSFW clip from he film:
