Green Room

"Punk rock and horror should go hand-in-hand – both need to be loud, fast and resolutely NSFW – but often the results are embarrassing. Just as writer/director Jeremy Saulnier brought humanity back to the revenge flick in 2013's Blue Ruin, here he brings proper scares and smarts to the punk-horror subgenre."

"Characterization and emotional investment are in disappointingly short supply, while crucial tension is permitted to dissipate in an anti-climactic final third."

"This is a brutal movie that finds unusual freedom in limitations..."

"Saulnier’s ability to take a well-trodden road and fill it with grisly surprises is quite something."

"If you like your movies – and your music – nasty, brutish and short, but never gratuitous, then Green Room is for you."

"Way more than crass exploitation. It's a B movie with an art-house core."

"An electrifying genre-bending blast."

"It's all put together with great skill, but never quite manages to deliver more than its modest, stripped-back story will allow."

"As action, it's niftily executed, the suspense neatly built, and the shocks expectedly surprising."

"A riotous, rough-hewn and rousing punk reinvention of ’70s-style grindhouse exploitation-with-a-brain-cinema."