Blue Ruin is a 2013 American independent Southern Gothic revenge thriller film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and starring Macon Blair. Saulnier funded production on the film through a successful Kickstarter campaign, which MTV called "the perfect example of what crowdfunding can accomplish."

Plot

Vagrant Dwight Evans lives out of his car in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and scavenges for food and money. After learning of the impending release of Wade Marshall Cleland Jr, the man who murdered Dwight's parents twenty years earlier, Dwight returns to his hometown in Virginia. He goes to a firearms store to buy a gun, but buys a postcard instead and sends it to his sister. He then breaks into a truck and steals a gun, but destroys it trying to open its trigger lock with a crowbar.