Green Room (2015)


director: Jeremy Saulnier
release-year: 2015
genres: horror
countries: USA
languages: English

Maeby and her destitute Fugazi-loving D.C. punk band are cruising around the pacific northwest looking for gigs and stealing gas.

Marry me!

A recently-fired radio host gets them a last-minute show near Portland, which turns out to be in a neo-nazi forest compound. They open their set with the Dead Kennedy's "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" in protest.

The punks do not fuck off.

They pop into the green room after their set to pick up a forgotten phone, and discover a group of neo-nazis huddled around a dead lady with a knife in her brain.

Which makes it more of a red room.

The surprisingly level-headed club manager gently persuades the band to be his hostages while he calls the cops and leads them away with a distraction. The distraction is a lesser stabbing.

I need to stab someone!  Where's my stabbing knife?

Maeby & company realize they probably aren't getting out of this unhurt. They can't get out of the green room, but they manage to disarm a neo-nazi and take him hostage.

There just Maeby hope for them yet.

The club owner, a calm, quiet, and disappointed Patrick Stewart, arrives and takes over the negotiations. It goes pretty well until he hacks off one of the band members' hands, which sets the negotiations back a smidge.

Tea.  Earl Grey.  Hot.

The rest of the film is the band surging out, gaining ground bit-by-bit, and getting various appendages severed bit-by-bit. They timidly proffer a little heroin-based plot justification between scenes, but wisely choose not to linger on it.

The plot is also something about paintball.

The wise Sir Stewart leaves a mere two neo-nazis with a handful of shells to deal with the last two remaining band members, which is neither enough nazis nor shells, allowing the band to reach the Oregon wild and pop a hole in Stewart's skull.

It is, in a sense, a happy ending.