There is not a single wasted frame and, in all honesty, spending any more time in the green room than the film’s lean 95 minutes would be almost unbearable.
A riotous, rough-hewn and rousing punk reinvention of ’70s-style grindhouse exploitation-with-a-brain-cinema.
Horror fans will love the gore and pitch-black humour and Imogen Poots is noteworthy as the feisty Amber but I’m still more of a Blue Ruin fan.
This is a film that defines character through ruthless action, which enhances the experiential effect Saulnier is going for. This is straight-for-the-jugular filmmaking, not passive entertainment.
Patrick Stewart is impressive as a white supremacist in a genuinely shocking horror-thriller about a punk band’s battle with neo-Nazis.
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