10 Horror Movies Set In Only One Location
3. Green Room
Blue Ruin helmer Jeremy Saulnier is no stranger to the gory world of lone location horrors—after all, his largely unseen debut Murder Party, from way back in 2007, essentially consisted of bored hipsters chopping each other into bloody bits at a warehouse. But it’s fair to say he really upped the ante with this indie effort from 2015, an unbearably tense and shockingly gruesome thriller which features one of the late Anton Yelchin’s finest screen turns before the actor’s untimely death.
The Fright Night star plays the frontman of a punk band who take a gig in a remote biker bar only to discover their audience are neo Nazis—and that’s not the worst of it. When the band return to the eponymous green room and accidentally witness a murder cover up, they’re forced to barricade themselves inside and fend off the skinhead threat for the duration of one long, unremittingly bleak night.
This one is definitely a bit brutal for some audiences—poor Maeby—but it’s a pretty perfect distillation of what psychological torment a talented director can wreak with just one location, and features a fantastic villainous turn from Picard himself Patrick Stewart to boot.