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 the most promising of this new batch has been Jeremy Saulnier, who followed up his ultra-low budget debut, "Murder Party," with "Blue Ruin," a nifty, beautifully-made twist on the revenge movie that won over not just gorehounds, but also cinephiles. His new film "Green Room" cements his promise by taking all the strengths of "Blue Ruin" and building on them, while straightening out some of the weaknesses...