First published by Little White Lies Jeremy Saulnier‘s second feature, the self-financed, lo-fi revenger Blue Ruin (2013), won him the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and a welter of critical plaudits. So when I met him during last year’s London Film Festival where he was promoting the ‘siegepunk’ thriller Green Room, I was curious to know…
After writing and directing the self-financed, darkly comic cult film Murder Party (2007) and the slow-simmering, lo-fi revenger Blue Ruin (2013) – the latter being selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes where it won the FIPRESCI Prize – Jeremy Saulnier has now turned his craft to the genre-inflected siege thriller Green Room that…