9. BUT AFTER THE GIG: Just because the party has ended, that doesn’t mean the activities have.

The Ain’t Rights — bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin), guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), drummer Reece Joe Cole) and singer Tiger (Callum Turner) — are ready to get off tour after a show for promoter Tad (David W. Thompson) leaves with almost enough money to get back home. To make up for it, he gets them booked on a show for his cousin Daniel (Mark Webber). When they get there, they learn that they’re opening for a skinhead band.

As they leave, Pat finds the body of a girl named Emily in the green room, stabbed by the drummer of the band that’s on stage now. The bar’s workers Gabe (Macon Blair) and Big Justin (Eric Edelstein) lock the Ain’t Rights in the green room — they did no favors by starting their set with a cover of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” by the Dead Kennedys — along with the dead girl’s friend Emily (Imogen Poots).

Darcy (Patrick Stewart) is the owner of the bar and the leader of the skinheads. He manages the situation, which has gotten crazier when the cops come. One skin stabs another as a cover story and then he comes for the band, hoping to kill them and cover this up. As they fight their way out, members of the band are killed off with Clark being torn apart by a dog and Reese killed by a man with a machete.

The reason for the murder is that Daniel and Emily wanted to leave the skins. Darcy has told Daniel that the Ain’t Rights are the killers, but Amber explains the situation just in time for him to be killed by a bartender and the dog to return and kill Sam. Now, Pat and Amber have to decide if they want to escape or get revenge.

Director and writer Jeremy Saulnier has created a movie that keeps a brutal pace while staying true to being in a band. He didn’t want to support white nationalist bands, so instead the soundtrack is a mix of punk and metal, including Slayer, Obituary, Fear and Midnight.

I’d been waiting to see this movie for a long time, holding it until it was ready to be watched. It was worth it.

The art for this post comes from Oliver Barrett.