The director of ‘Green Room’ and ‘Blue Ruin’ returns to his savage ways.
Some films sneak up on you. Others you spend months to years anticipating. Blue Ruin is a movie that came out of nowhere and smashed me in the gut. I had seen and enjoyed Jeremy Saulnier‘s Murder Party, but that film did not prepare me for the emotional shotgun blast to the soul that is Blue Ruin. I stumbled out of that theater screening in a haze of tears and stomach ache. The experience was wrenching but also exhilarating. I’m a masochist, give me more.
Saulnier’s follow-up, Green Room, did not punish my being as much as Blue Ruin, but that’s only because it’s so much damn, ugly fun. Especially as we sink further and further into the hell that is the American political landscape. Nazi punks fuck off. Indeed.
After that one-two punch, Saulnier had a fan for life. I know I’m not the only one. Blue Ruin snuck up on us, and we’ll spend the rest of our lives anticipating the next Saulnier picture.
Oh, look, the wait is near over. Check out the first trailer for his upcoming Netflix feature Hold the Dark:
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