Green Room (2015)

The Ain't Rights, a punk band made up of Pat, Sam, Reece and Tiger, are touring the Pacific Northwest with little money. A local radio host, Tad, sets them up with a gig at a bar in the woods outside Portland, warning them it is a skinhead crowd. They play the show, opening with a cover of "Nazi Punks F--k Off", and the angry audience eventually warms to them.

After their set, Pat goes back to the green room to get Sam's phone and finds a young woman, Emily, dead with a knife in her head, with several skinheads and Emily's friend Amber standing over her. The band is locked inside the room with Amber and a huge skinhead named Big Justin, while the staff call the bar's owner, Darcy Banker.

Darcy arrives and calmly plans to cover up the murder and kill the witnesses. When Pat tries to hand over the gun he has taken from Justin through the door, his arm is slashed badly with box cutters. The band and Amber are trapped, outnumbered and hunted. Darcy uses attack dogs, guns and lies, telling the police the band stabbed someone.

One by one, the band is killed. Reece is mauled by dogs and has his throat cut, Tiger is killed by a dog, and Sam is shot. Daniel, a skinhead who tries to help them, is also killed. Amber, who knows the building and its secrets, becomes Pat's only ally. Together they discover that the bar is a front for a heroin lab.

Pat and Amber fight back. They kill the remaining skinheads, using the dogs' training and the bar's layout against them, and finally confront Darcy outside, who Amber shoots dead. Exhausted and bloody, Pat and Amber sit by the road and wait for the police to arrive.

Who survives Green Room? Only Pat and Amber. Sam, Reece and Tiger of the band are killed, along with Daniel and almost all of the skinheads.

How does Darcy die? Amber shoots him outside the bar near the end, after he tries to clean up the evidence.

What is the desert island band question? Early on, the band plays a game about which band they would take to a desert island. The question comes back after the siege, a small, human moment of calm after all the horror.

Why did Emily die? She wanted to leave the group, and the bar was a front for heroin dealing. Her murder was meant to keep the operation secret.

Why is the film so violent? Saulnier wanted violence to feel real, quick and ugly, not exciting. Every wound changes the story, which makes the tension so high.