Not until I started watching Green Room, did I realize that Jeremy Saulnier, the writer/director, had previously made Blue Ruin, a movie that started out pretty good, but then became much less interesting as the story went on. I think it was around the time towards the end of Act 1 when the actor Macon Blair (who played the protagonist in Blue Ruin) appeared. Up to that point in Green Room, the story was okay, but felt poorly paced. I think a lot of this was to do with what I knew in advance of the story, and my expectations for it moving in that direction.
AT THE FOOTHILLS OF MADNESS 