Blue Ruin
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Sep 27, 2026
TonyHOST
need!
Kerry JacksonHOST
Well, this is the guy who made Blue Ruin, Green Room, Rebel Ridge.
Kerry JacksonHOST
All those movies blend genres in interesting and unique ways, and now he's doing straight horror, or maybe.
Kerry JacksonHOST
Um... it's a very cryptic teaser called slay ground uh which is objectively a great title uh is it
Eric AbrahamHOST
It doesn't make sense.
Eric AbrahamHOST
O- off of the, the success of just his one movie, um, which is ki- was kind of a niche movie in a way, Blue Ruin.
Eric AbrahamHOST
Um, and then somehow just wrangled one of the best, like, Shakespearean actors ever.
Scott AndersonHOST
Yeah, it's...
Eric AbrahamHOST
Yeah, it was, uh...
Eric AbrahamHOST
Uh, it, the, the whole casting of, of this movie, like, he got, um...
Eric AbrahamHOST
Because, uh, off of Blue Ruin, he, I think he got a little bit of credit, like, you know, a little bit of kinda street cred, and people really w- was interested.
Eric AbrahamHOST
Uh, it, it seems at least that people were really interested in, in, like, uh- Uh, working for him or doing the next thing that he had to do, and, um, it just happened to be a punk rock horror movie.
Mike P. NelsonGUEST
I don't think you can outrun that in the end.
Eric VespeHOST
Well, I think one of the best stories to ever do this is Blue Ruin.
Eric VespeHOST
Have you guys seen Blue Ruin?
Mike P. NelsonGUEST
Yes.
Eric VespeHOST
And what I love about that one is it's not just the realistic fighting that happens when you have, you know, the schlubbier guy doing it.
Eric VespeHOST
Because that's real life.
Eric VespeHOST
You're never going to be like, I found this recording of the guy admitting it or this videotape.
Eric VespeHOST
You're never going to have that clear of a... thing so you might be like the the guys that like shoot the people who killed their daughter on their way to prison yep or whatever and then you find out oh that person was a suspect but like oh was completely exonerated it's like you know what i mean and so but blue ruin i love because you're never 100 sure but you're always with that guy you're with
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
So he did like Hold the Dark and then Rebel Ridge on Netflix.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
And thankfully he's no longer, well, at least least this movie uh coming up that we're going to be talking about isn't a netflix movie it's going to be in theaters which is good so yeah he did a murder party blue ruin green room hold the dark rebel ridge and uh he's got two one movie coming up in a tv series it looks like that's in production so uh the director is jeremy saulnier and Yeah.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
I mean, Green Room, fucking incredible movie.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
Yeah.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
Blue Ruin.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
I remember we were fucking going nuts for that movie.
Johnny WolfensteinHOST
So he's got a new movie and he hasn't really done much in the horror sphere lately.
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Johnny WolfensteinHOST
James Badgedale, who was in Hold the Dark.
Steve GoldbergHOST
We've talked about it a little bit on the show.
Steve GoldbergHOST
Jeremy Saulnier is the one who did Green Room and Rebel Ridge and Blue Ruin as well.
Steve GoldbergHOST
We've talked about him a little bit.
Steve GoldbergHOST
And so this is a Halloween set fugitive thriller.
Kerry JacksonHOST
This will open in January 29th, it says.
Kerry JacksonHOST
He made Blue Ruin.
Kerry JacksonHOST
He made Green Room.
Kerry JacksonHOST
He made Rebel Ridge.
CohenHOST
It's too bad because the guy who wrote it directed it.
CohenHOST
He made Blue Ruin and Green Room.
CohenHOST
Have you seen those? Those are fantastic.
SeanHOST
Have I seen this? Green Room sounds familiar.
Macon BlairGUEST
And a couple years later, Jeremy just had the idea to, rather than try and do another goofy comedy, he wanted to do something the opposite direction that was very dramatic and stark.
Macon BlairGUEST
So he came up with Blue Ruin, which was another largely self-funded indie movie, but it was much darker, much more serious in tone, and it was a pretty much a revenge story.
Macon BlairGUEST
But he put me in the lead for that.
Macon BlairGUEST
And that one had the good luck of getting into the Directors' Fortnight festival.
Macon BlairGUEST
Little by little, moved forward in, in that manner.
Jeff GoldsmithHOST
I wanna go back for a second.
Jeff GoldsmithHOST
When did you begin training as an actor? Because your performance in Blue Ruin was just phenomenal, and really a sit up in your seat type of performance that turned a lot of people onto you, obviously.
Macon BlairGUEST
That feels wonderful to hear.
Macon BlairGUEST
And a couple years later, Jeremy just had the idea to, rather than try and do another goofy comedy, he wanted to do something in the opposite direction that was very dramatic and stark.
Macon BlairGUEST
So he came up with Blue Ruin.
Macon BlairGUEST
which was another largely self-funded indie movie, but it was much darker, much more serious in tone.
Macon BlairGUEST
And it was a pretty much a revenge story that he put me in the lead for that.
Macon BlairGUEST
Little by little, moved forward in that manner.
Jeff GoldsmithHOST
I want to go back for a second.
Jeff GoldsmithHOST
When did you begin training as an actor? Because your performance in Blue Ruin was just phenomenal and really a sit up in your seat type of performance that turned a lot of people on to you, obviously.
Macon BlairGUEST
That feels wonderful to hear.
Christian RuvalcabaHOST
said
Eric StrifflerGUEST
Blue Ruin.
Eric StrifflerGUEST
I was thinking of Green Book.
Eric StrifflerGUEST
Did you say Green Room or Green Book? I think I said
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