6 Movies You Need to See Before Watching 'Green Room'
"It won't end well." That's the foreboding promise Patrick Stewart delivers in "Green Room," one of the year's best and most holy-sh** intense thrillers. The less you know about why Stewart's character (a chilling white supremacist) makes that promise, the better. In honor of the movie's limited release this weekend (it goes wide April 29), here are six movies you should watch before braving "Green Room." By Sharon Knolle
'Blue Ruin' (2014)
In "Green Room" director Jeremy Saulnier's first film, a drifter named Dwight (Macon Blair, who has a smaller role in "Green Room") learns that the man who who killed his parents is getting out of prison. He drives cross country to execute him, but nothing goes as planned in this indie revenge thriller.
'Panic Room' (2002)
Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart are forced to hide out in their new home's panic room when thieves break in. Once inside, they have to come up with inventive -- and explosive -- ways to survive.
'Alpha Dog' (2007)
"Green Room" star Anton Yelchin is no stranger to things going terribly wrong or getting in with the wrong crowd. In this based-on-real-life drama, he plays a kid who is taken hostage in order to pay his brother's drug debt. S gets R when his kidnappers, led by Justin Timberlake, realize they can't let him make it out alive.
'Romper Stomper' (1992)
This controversial movie put Russell Crowe (right) on the map: He's mesmerizing as Hando, a violent Neo-Nazi who leads his fellow skinheads in racist attacks. It was rated NC-17 when first released in the U.S.
'Deliverance' (1972)
In this harrowing survival drama, four friends -- including Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds -- go rafting in Georgia and run afoul of some backwoods locals. It's the movie that rightly made banjo-playing hillbillies some of the most feared villains of all time.
'Straw Dogs' (1971)
After three violent hooligans terrorize mild-mannered Dustin Hoffman and his wife, he snaps -- going to some very murder-y extremes in this iconic Sam Peckinpah thriller. (Skip the recent remake, which was met with scathing reviews).
