Green Room (2015) Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Box Set Review
Green Room (2015) Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Box Set Review
Struggling punk band Ain’t Rights are in the Pacific Northwest for a gig, but when it’s cancelled, Pat, Sam, Reece and Tiger must find another way of making the money that they desperately need. When an opportunity for a show in the sticks arises, they can’t say no… but what the hell have they walked into?
The venue turns out to be a neo-Nazi bar… and when the band witness a brutal murder, things quickly spiral out of control and they find themselves trapped in the green room, with little chance of escape… Forced to fight for survival using anything and everything at their disposal, can they make it out alive?
GREEN ROOM is one of the best movies of the 21st Century to date and it is a movie that I would urge you to check out if you haven’t already done so. Written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier (BLUE RUIN, MURDER PARTY) the idea for GREEN ROOM came about simply because Saulnier had an urge to direct a thriller with a green room as its prime location. He also wanted to create a horror-thriller that matched the ‘so brutal and so blunt’ thrills that both MAD MAX 2: ROAD WARRIOR and the original ROBOCOP movie brought to the screen, and to his credit he has.
GREEN ROOM shares DNA with JOHN CARPENTER’S ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 in its DNA however that Seventies classic plays like easy Sunday afternoon viewing compared to the brutality offered up here. Across the board everything about GREEN ROOM is first rate, from the acting, the script, camerawork, production, editing, and sure, the climax doesn’t quite match the ferocity and ferociousness of the taut, tight violence of what preceded it however it did afford me the opportunity to sink back into the soft comfort that my sofa afforded me after being sat on the edge of it for the previous hour-and-a-half.
GREEN ROOM is presented as a dual format edition that includes the UHD and Blu-ray with the main feature and bonus features on both discs. The Limited Edition comes complete with a rigid slipcase, new artwork created by Adam Stothard and is accompanied by a 120-page book. The UHD is presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and the insightful special features include a new audio commentary and new interviews with writer–director Jeremy Saulnier, actor Callum Turner, composers Brooke & Will Blair and much more. Please see full list below.
Special Features
• Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
• UHD presented in Dolby Vision HDR
• New audio commentary by Reyna Cervantes and Prince Jackson
• Audio commentary with writer–director Jeremy Saulnier
• Going Hardcore: new interview with writer–director Jeremy Saulnier
• Punk Rock: new interview with actor Callum Turner
• Rocking Out: new interview with Composers Brooke & Will Blair
• Going Green: interview with production designer Ryan Warren Smith
• Nazi Punks F*ck Off: Thomas Caldwell on Green Room
• Archive featurette: Into the Pit – Making Green Room
Limited Edition Contents
• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Adam Stothard
• 120-page book with new essays by Eugenio Ercolani and Gian Giacomo Petrone, Alexandra Heller- Nicholas, Josh Hurtado, Jolene Richardson, Shelagh Rowan-Legg and Thomas Watson
• Six collectors’ art cards
