Part of Midnight Movies
Superbly crafted, wickedly fun and woefully underseen, this 2016 thriller stars the late Anton Yelchin as the singer of a touring punk band who must square off against a skinhead club owner, played by Patrick Stewart, after witnessing a murder at his club.
Down on their luck punk rockers, The Ain’t Rights, are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour — and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, run-down club deep in the backwoods of Oregon. What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown.
“How can you resist a film that, metaphorically, throws Simon & Garfunkel, Fugazi and Slayer into the same moshpit?” —Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard “This movie, one part horror, one part thriller, one part brutally bleak black comedy of errors, is like some sort of cinematic Gordian Knot of death and destruction.” —Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com
