With week after week offering yet another bland selection of generic Hollywood fare, it's easy to forget that any kind of indie scene still exists. Thankfully Blue Ruin awkwardly breezes in as a not so gentle reminder that Hollywood and all its big budget blandness doesn't always get its own way.

There was a time when Dwight (Macon Blair) was like everyone else. He had family and friends and lived a normal life. And then his mother and father were shot. Since then, Dwight has fallen off the grid and become effectively a bum; he lives in his car and rummages through bins for thrown out food to eat.

When he gets picked up by a police woman, he believes he's done something wrong. He hasn't. The police woman, who knows him and his situation, just wanted to give him the heads up: Wade Cleland Jr. has been released from prison. As if waking from a coma, Dwight springs into action. Why? Because it was Wade who murdered his parents.

Instantly concerned for the wellbeing of his sister, Dwight decides that only one course of action is open to him: he will have to kill Wade. With this particular wheel in motion, Dwight begins a journey down a very dark path indeed.

With Blue Ruin, writer/director Jeremy Saulnier has produced the archetypal indie flick through and through. What's more, he did it by getting it financed through a kickstarter campaign, which is made even more impressive by the fact that no big names were attached to the project. The result? A gripping tale of an everyman's attempt at self-preservation and revenge.

WARNING: Severe nose bleeds can kill.

The film is completely devoid of any flashiness. It is wired predominately by a cinematic earth that keeps everything perfectly grounded. But that doesn't mean that it is without any sparks. Saulnier has produced a film flooded with an unnerving stillness that is occasionally interrupted by high spikes of tension. These are magnified by his main protagonist; in Dwight, Saulnier has an average Joe that an audience can relate to, and also understand and sympathise with, when his off switch is suddenly flicked on. He has no super powers; he has no physical or inner strength. And yet a base instinct to protect kicks in.

It's a relatively unbelievable story told in a wholly believable way. Saulnier gets a lot out of his unknown cast, especially Blair who manages to personify his heightened emotional state so convincingly throughout.

Blue Ruin is destined for cultdom, and quite rightly so. It doesn't pander to its audience in any way and yet still manages to deliver the goods with complete and utter satisfaction.