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Patrick Stewart Plays a Neo-Nazi Leader in ‘Green Room’

Watch the gory red-band trailer for this intense new horror-thriller

by
Jonathan Zalman
February 02, 2016
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A24 Films / Facebook
A24 Films / Facebook
A24 Films / Facebook

When I think of Patrick Stewart, I picture him leading missions on the deck of the Starship Enterprise, saving an Earth in which mutants and humans struggle to co-exist, and bromancing it up with Sir Ian McKellen. Now, the world will get to see Stewart play Darcy Banker, the “depraved” owner of a club in the woods of Oregon—and the villainous leader of a white supremacist group—in the horror/thriller Green Room. The film is directed by Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin). The red band trailer, below, was released on Tuesday. (Fair warning: it’s bloody)

Here’s a description of Green Room, from A24 films:

Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown.

Jonathan Zalman is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn.