10 Under-Appreciated Recent Movies Destined To Become Cult Classics
4. Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room was the follow up to his 2013 indie hit, Blue Ruin. Not only did the film earn rave reviews from Sundance, but it had the most badass logline ever written; “A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.” The rock band consists of Joe Cole and the late Anton Yelchin while the leader of the neo-Nazi skinheads in none other than Sir Patrick Stewart.
The film’s violent, intense, horrifying, punk, and near perfect. Saulnier’s style is basically if all the gore and obscenity of a Tarintino film were based in reality. When the film’s rated R party for, “brutal graphic violence and gory images” you know it’s not going to be for everyone.
Saulnier doesn’t romanticize the brutality nor make any of the characters black and white; the film’s as cleverly written as it’s disturbing. Green Room has already started a cult following, but nowhere near as large or passionate as it deserves.