“I loved the subculture and how it looked and felt,” director Jeremy Saulnier recently told us about his earlier days. “It’s always evolving, thousands of subgenres of metal, punk, hardcore you could find. You could find your tribe no matter what, but within a general subculture it was one of the most diverse. I was attracted to the more aggressive side of the music. I loved metal and just felt I needed to harness that power. As I got older and more into the film, I felt this inevitable connection and I could never find closure on that experience and I had to archive it.”
The result is Green Room, a terrifically intense thriller that’s now in limited release and expanding in the coming weeks. If it’s not in your town yet, you can experience some of it as the full soundtrack has now arrived, featuring a score from Brooke Blair and Will Blair (re-teaming after Blue Ruin) as well as a tracks from Corpus Rottus, Midnight Battletorn, and even Creedence Clearwater Revival mixed in, not to mention songs by the film’s group The Ain’t Rights.
We also have perhaps the definitive conversation when it comes to making the film as Jeff Goldsmith at down with Saulnier for a 1.5-hour talk. They go through his transition from Blue Ruin to this with quite a few revelatory comments about the nature of having other investors on board. They also get into a heavy spoiler-filled section that’s quite illuminating for those that have seen the film. Check it out below or in iTunes, as well as the full soundtrack.
Green Room is now in limited release and expands wide on April 29th.