Review: Jeremy Saulnier's Exciting, Splattery, Funny Thriller 'Green Room'

This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It's an exciting time to be a genre fan in America. The last few years has seen the emergence of a throng of exciting new indie filmmakers like Ti West, Adam Wingard, David Robert Mitchell, and Jim Mickle, who've melded inventive horror or action/thriller elements to a smart lo-fi arthouse aesthetics, resulting in movies like "The House Of The Devil," "You're Next," "It Follows," and "Cold In July," among others. But one of ...

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