Curator Watchlist
Green Room
A brutal, tightly wound siege thriller with nasty practical violence, real tension, and a sharp anti-fascist edge. It’s lean, mean, and relentlessly suspenseful rather than fun in a conventional way.
Curator Watchlist
A brutal, tightly wound siege thriller with nasty practical violence, real tension, and a sharp anti-fascist edge. It’s lean, mean, and relentlessly suspenseful rather than fun in a conventional way.
Where to watch: Buy
Fri · 1h 35m
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
Jeremy Saulnier
Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart
A brutal, tightly wound siege thriller with nasty practical violence, real tension, and a sharp anti-fascist edge. It’s lean, mean, and relentlessly suspenseful rather than fun in a conventional way.
Green Room is a savage little pressure cooker: a siege movie that turns a backroom punk gig into a fight for survival. Jeremy Saulnier keeps the setup simple and the execution merciless, letting the tension build through small, ugly decisions until every corridor feels like a trap.
What makes it hit harder than a standard horror-thriller is the organization behind the violence. The antagonists are chilling because they’re disciplined, pragmatic, and frighteningly ordinary in their calmness. That gives the film a nasty political charge without turning it into a speech.
The performances are sharp across the board, with the cast selling exhaustion, panic, and improvisation under impossible conditions. It’s not an easy watch, but it is a very effective one: lean, ugly, and memorable in all the right ways.
nathaxnne [goodbye <3] (4.5★) · 4718 likes
You know, it would be really quite terrible if we were to find ourselves trapped in the midst of an armed White Supremacist business operation which uses entertainment as a cover for nefarious schemes which sicken and enslave the whole of the culture whilst using non-whites as scapegoats for the damage and hostility which follows, further fuelling their cause, right? right?
Lucy (4.5★) · 3855 likes
the room was not actually green
laird (4.5★) · 3617 likes
Tough crowd
Quinn Bailey (5★) · 2569 likes
PUNK AIN'T NO RELIGIOUS CULTPUNK MEANS THINKING FOR YOURSELFYOU AIN'T HARDCORE 'CAUSE YOU SPIKE YOUR HAIRWHEN A JOCK STILL LIVES INSIDE YOUR HEAD NAZI PUNKSNAZI PUNKSNAZI PUNKSFUCK OFF
Karsten (3★) · 2261 likes
Liked this but super underwhelmed. Great gore and a few intense scenes where you really have no idea where they're going. But for a film that relies on punk as a core part of it's personality, they didn't really use it a whole lot? It just felt like a way of establishing an aesthetic that never felt fully utilized. The politics were there but the energy just wasn't. Watched with some Twitter friends through Netflix Party! Great time!
A similarly lean, punishing revenge thriller with the same sense of escalating dread and grim realism.
Slow-burn paranoia and social unease turn into a devastatingly controlled genre payoff.
A moral spiral built from bad decisions, pressure, and the corrosive effect of money and fear.
Another survival nightmare that traps a small group in a sealed environment and keeps tightening the screws.
A classic siege structure with a stripped-down, relentless sense of being hunted by organized violence.
For viewers who want raw, abrasive terror and an almost documentary sense of panic.
Stylish, violent genre filmmaking with a strong pulse and a knack for sudden, shocking turns.
A bleak chamber piece about fear, distrust, and the way survival erodes social bonds.
A suburban underworld story where menace lurks beneath ordinary surfaces and polite behavior.
Methodical, fatalistic suspense driven by cold professionalism and the sense that violence is already in motion.
Clinical dread, emotional detachment, and the feeling of an inescapable trap closing in.
A brutal home-invasion nightmare that weaponizes helplessness and audience discomfort.
survival, siege, anti-fascism, punk subculture, complicity, class tension, violence, claustrophobia
siege thriller, punk rock, neo-Nazis, claustrophobic, gritty, practical gore, anti-fascist, crime horror, indie thriller, bleak