History Film / GreenRoom

* NoHuggingNoKissing: Sam is simply a member of the band and not in any relationship with any of the boys in it. [[spoiler: There's also no sexual tension between Pat and Amber and no romantic subplot of any kind going between them]].

* ObviousTrap:
** Yes, Pat, reach out into the hallway to [[spoiler: give Darcy your gun]]. Nothing bad [[HandInTheHole could possibly happen]].
** [[spoiler: Invoked verbatim by the remaining two Red Laces when Pat jumps into the basement and pretends to fight with someone. They know it's a ruse, but they still need to get inside and finish him off]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Clark, Darcy's right-hand man, is more than happy to train dogs to fight and kill. He also genuinely cares for them on some level, and [[LetThemDieHappy asks the last Red Laces to let a mortally wounded dog die fighting.]] [[spoiler: After Clark's death, that same dog finds his body and [[UndyingLoyalty lies down to die next to him.]]]]

* TooDumbToLive: Knowing that they're playing at a skinhead bar in the middle of nowhere, the band decides to open with a cover of the Music/DeadKennedys' "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a well-known anti-Nazi punk song]]. [[AvertedTrope Thankfully]], the spectators are more annoyed and belligerent than violent and actually end up enjoying the set.
** Played straight when [[spoiler:Sam suggests everyone split up to find an exit out of the venue when it's clear there are enemies wanting to kill them lurking all around who know the place much better than they do. Unsurprisingly, they're immediately overwhelmed and two are killed.]]
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: [[spoiler: There was a shotgun hidden behind the bar and Daniel was in the middle of retrieving it, but was killed in the process, with the very gun he was searching for, already removed by the rest of the gang]].

* HeKnowsTooMuch: The band. [[spoiler: Although it's also played with in that [[BigBad Darcy]] would rather have let the band talk about the murder and Werm go to prison as a result to protect his drug business]] [[spoiler: at least until he finds out that Emily and Daniel were planning to leave and take incriminating evidence with them]].

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Werm, who did the murder that kicked everything off, is last seen safe and sound watching television while his bandmates get high on heroin. Although the heroine was (heavily implied to be) tainted, there's no indication whether he'll take a hit before realizing they all OD'd]].

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: While the "minor crime" is murder, from Darcy's perspective the murder of some random girl by a resident musician of the club is a trifling matter. Darcy can't let cops investigate his club because of [[spoiler:the drug empire he's got in the basement]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Despite his apparent good intentions, college DJ Tad is this. He only tells the Ain't Rights that their gig at his college is cancelled after they've schlepped from Virginia to Oregon, leaving them desperate for quick money. He helps arrange a gig at Darcy's place and warns them that the crowd includes Aryan skinheads, but not that they're a violent drug gang who hate witnesses.

* DecoyProtagonist: Reece looks like he could lead the group out of their misery [[spoiler: but then he suffers a SurprisinglySuddenDeath.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: When Tad can't deliver on his promise, Reece angrily grabs and threatens him, establishing him as the most physically dominant of the band.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Werm, who did the murder that kicked everything off, is last seen safe and sound watching television while his bandmates get high on heroin. Although the heroine was (heavily implied to be) tainted, he apparently didn't take a shot himself]].

* PrettyLittleHeadshots:
** Justified, as the handgun used for inflicting those is of really small caliber.
** Averted with [[spoiler: Darcy]] and ''[[PinkMist horrifically]]'' averted with [[spoiler: Daniel]].

** The drugs given to Cow Catcher (probably to poison them) are "n***-stamped." Gabe asks if they're "Grove Street." This is a reference to Grove Street from VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas, a neighborhood with a majority-black population and a notorious drug problem.

* BadassBystander: Amber turns out to be one.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: Amber]] surprisingly turns out to be one.

* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. The count of shells for the shotgun is a plot point, especially after [[spoiler: Pat took the shells for himself]]. And by the end of the story, all ammunition have been fired.

** Early on, while giving an interview, all band members list their Desert Island Bands, all being rock or punk rock. Later on, in the thick of it, [[spoiler: Sam reveals it's in fact Music/SimonAndGarfunkel, while Reece reveals it's Music/{{Prince}}]]. This even extends to Amber, since even if she wasn't part of the interview, [[{{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}} her]] listing of [[spoiler: Music/{{Madonna}} along Music/{{Slayer}}]] is funny by itself.

* BullyingADragon: When the band learns their audience is composed of white supremacists and Neo-Nazis, they decide to play "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" by the Dead Kennedys. Fortunately, the skinheads are more annoyed than offended. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this actually suggests that the band were going to be hunted regardless if they saw the murder.]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover shows Creator/PatrickStewart, Anton Yelchin, and Imogen Poots standing in formation as if facing some danger together. In the actual movie Patrick Stewart ''is'' the danger.

** [[spoiler: Reece, who at first doesn't seem any different from the other members of the band, turns out to be the most physically imposing and strongest among the protagonists. He's the most willing to handle a firearm and shows more proficiency than anyone else, including the bad guys, in a number of submission-grappling moves]].

* FallGuy: The two 'true believers' [[spoiler: that agree to stab and get stabbed to cover for the initial 911 call and get the police off the scent of the real stabbing taking the wounds and the prison time respectively]].

* FireForgedFriends: Amber goes from a random person the band is locked with to [[spoiler: closest ally Pat has and lives to the very end]]. They don't exactly like each other by the end, but still make a great team.

* PsychosForHire: The Red Laces. [[spoiler:One who hacks Reece to death has a big grin on his face when he's done.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler: Pat and Amber are the last survivors of the night and trapped in the green room. With the skinheads' arrival imminent, Amber [[DressingAsTheEnemy shaves Pat's head and gives him her jacket]] while she hides in the sofa. When the skinheads break in, Pat's skinhead impersonation puts the killers off-guard long enough for him to bait them into a trap]].

** [[spoiler: Only at the very end does Pat think of his Desert Island Band. Amber suggests he tell "someone who gives a shit"]].

* AffablyEvil: Darcy, who has a gentle, almost grandfatherly approach to mentoring the young Skinheads. He uses his kindly personality to try to convince the band to surrender. (Depending on your interpretation of the character, possibly more FauxAffablyEvil.)

** [[spoiler: Daniel switches sides and helps the protagonists, and it's revealed that he was planning on leaving from the beginning and is also holding incriminating evidence against Darcy and the skinheads for a past crime they've committed]].

* RunningGag: People calling the amps in the hallway a "fire hazard" even after dealing with the murder.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Darcy and the group of neo-Nazis. Darcy refers to the heroin [[spoiler: he gives to the house band Cow Catcher]] as "my dope, nigger stamps" and later [[spoiler: mentions that it is likely poisoned by saying "really gotta watch that nigger dope; bad batch doing the rounds."]]

** The drugs given to Cow Catcher (probably to poison them) are "nigger-stamped." Gabe asks if they're "Grove Street." This is a reference to Grove Street from VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas, a neighborhood with a majority-black population and a notorious drug problem.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Darcy heavily implies that he has arranged for Werm and the rest of the house band Cow Catcher to poison themselves by giving them free drugs with 'nigger stamps' that has been poisoned. Seemingly confirmed when all but Werm are shown unconscious or dead with needles still in at least one of their arms at the end of the film]].

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: A solid 9. While the violence isn't as rampant as other horror movies, the death scenes in this movie are ''very'', '''very''' graphic, as brief as they may be.

''Green Room'' is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by Creator/JeremySaulnier and starring Creator/AntonYelchin, Imogen Poots and Creator/PatrickStewart.

[[PunkRock Punk band]] the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, Oregon, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi UsefulNotes/{{Skinheads}}, they witness a murder, and the band is forced to fight for their lives.

* BigBad: Darcy, the sadistic, neo-Nazi owner of the club, who is absolutely terrifying despite speaking softly and looking like a nice, glasses-wearing old man, due to being played by Creator/PatrickStewart.

[[{{Understatement}} Things don't]] [[{{Gorn}} go so]] [[FromBadToWorse well]] for our heroes.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Pat and Amber survive]], but almost everyone else dies [[spoiler: including all of Pat's bandmates]], and [[spoiler: Pat's mutilated arm]] means that he'll probably never play bass again.

* TemptingFate: Go ahead. Try to argue that playing the Dead Kennedys' "Nazi Punks F**k Off" in a ''neo-Nazi'' venue isn't this. Even if the audience members themselves ultimately brushed it off, it pretty much [[{{Foreshoadowing}}set up]] that the band wasn't just going to be able to safely leave before crap started hitting the fan, either.

* TemptingFate: Go ahead. Try to argue that playing the Dead Kennedys' "Nazi Punks F**k Off" in a ''neo-Nazi'' venue isn't this. Even if the audience members themselves ultimately brushed it off, it pretty much set up that the band wasn't just going to be able safely leave there before crap started hitting the fan, either.

* TemptingFate: Go ahead. Try and argue that playing the Dead Presidents' "Nazi Punks F**k Off" in a ''neo-Nazi'' venue isn't this.

* AngryGuardDog: The pit bulls owned by [[TheDragon Clark]] that Darcy sets on the band.

* ActionSurvivor: The band are ''way'' out of their depth dealing with the neo-Nazis, and realistically make many mistakes throughout the film, which [[spoiler: gets three of the four killed]].

* AirVentPassageway: Subverted. At one point Sam suggest trying the bunker's duct but Pat brushes her off saying that they wouldn't fit through.

** Early on, while giving interview, all band members list their Desert Island Bands, all being rock or punk rock. Later on, in the thick of it, [[spoiler: Sam reveals it's in fact Music/SimonAndGarfunkel, while Reece reveals it's Music/{{Prince}}]]. This even extends to Amber, since even if she wasn't part of the interview, [[{{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}} her]] listing of [[spoiler: Music/{{Madonna}} along Music/{{Slayer}}]] is funny by itself.

* ChekhovsGunman: Subverted. [[spoiler: The wounded dog that run away? No, it's not going to attack Pat and Amber (or even Gabe, as he was sent out to find help at a nearby farm) for a DownerEnding. It just came back home and [[UndyingLoyalty lies next to its dead owner]], hurt itself and slowly dying]].
* ChekhovsSkill: When Reece shoves Tad into a door, Tiger says, "Ease up, Jiu-Jitsu!" Reece later uses his jiu-jitsu to put the bouncer in an armbar and a rear naked choke.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD cover shows Creator/PatrickStewart, Anton Yelchin, and Imogen Poots standing in formation, as if facing some danger together. In the actual movie Patrick Stewart ''is'' the danger.

** Discussed when Pat and Amber sit stunned on green room sofa and wonder why they're not panicking.

* FireForgedFriends: Amber goes from random person the band is locked with to [[spoiler: closest ally Pat has and lives to the very end]]. They don't exactly like each other by the end, but still make a great team.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Werm, who did the murder that kicked everything off, is last seen safe and sound watching television while his bandmates get high on heroin. Although the heroin was (heavily implied to be) tainted, he apparently didn't take a shot himself]].

** After [[spoiler: Daniel switches sides and shows the remaining band members where ammo is held, along with a shotgun, he is killed while saying "I know where we keep--"]], catching buckshot with his face. His killer even remarks how Daniel was "too slow."

** The band reference quite a few musical bands, including various groups as their "desert island band." Pat wears a Music/MinorThreat shirt and Sam wears a Music/DeadKennedys shirt throughout the film.

** Played straight when [[spoiler:Sam suggests everyone split up to find an exit out of the venue, when it's clear there are enemies wanting to kill them lurking all around who know the place much better than they do. Unsurprisingly, they're immediately overwhelmed and two are killed.]]

* YouCanBarelyStand: [[spoiler: By the end of the story, Pat and Amber are wounded, bleeding and after entire night of a siege and fighting for their lives. They just sit there, with no strength left]].