Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Sarentrol Masterful Cinema

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

sol- Based on true events, this Australian drama details the friendship that an Adelaide teen sparked with a neighbour who went on out a vicious killing spree. Daniel Henshall is excellent as the charismatic serial killer with scary moody swings; he has several intense moments as he passionately talks about killing and maiming homosexuals and child abusers while ruing how nobody takes vigilante action against such individuals. With this stance clear early on, 'Snowtown' follows a logical progression as Henshall begins acting on his own words in increasingly brutal ways. Meanwhile, the teen protagonist is torn between wanting to support his new surrogate father and being disgusted by his vile actions. Bits and pieces of this dynamic feel under- cooked; the teenager never changes very much throughout despite becoming more complicit in the murders. Establishing a stronger link between Henshall's hates and his victims' deaths would have also made him easier to understand. By all accounts though, the real killer's motives are still the subject of debate, so the vagueness is arguably appropriate. Whatever the case, the movie features some of the most grueling torture scenes ever filmed, plus it spins a resonating tale of a teenager whose nightmarish, abused home life becomes even more of a nightmare when he reaches out to the one adult in his life who he thinks he can trust.

Freedom060286 We see some people being murdered, but learn little about them or why most of them were targeted and tortured to death. With the actual events, at least half the victims seem to have been murdered so John and the others could receive their welfare cheque, but virtually no attention is paid to this motive in the movie. There is no explanation in the movie of why the last murder victim was chosen. He was neither a pedophile nor a homosexual, and was not a welfare recipient whose cheques could be taken by the criminals. The cannibalizing of the final victim is not mentioned in the movie, and we get no hint that by this time, the murderers were simply addicted to killing and were doing it to satisfy sadistic urges. It would have been better if the some of the time-consuming drawn- out scenes were shortened, and replaced by a bit more information on what was going on and a better background of the people involved.I found the same in Justin Kurzel's version of MacBeth. It was not nearly as good as Roman Polanski's movie, because some of the most important parts of the story and some famous lines are left out, and there are those unnecessary long pauses where little happens.With a more capable director, this story could be re-made into a better, more informative movie.

janiegun619 This movie sounded interested, so I decided to watch it. I heard it would be disturbing but I couldn't even expect the extent as to how disturbing it actually was. Many scenes were shocking, and for me, at least three scenes had me very freaked out and were difficult to sit through. The character John, brought out a lot of fear in me. He was certainly one of the must cruel movie characters I have seen. I don't know if I liked or disliked the movie. I thought that several parts of the story were quite confusing, and I wish I could find a full synopsis of all the details and relationships within the story. Besides that, the cinematography was great. Overall, the movie was very unsettling.

Leofwine_draca SNOWTOWN is a true-life story about a serial killer and his associates who were prevalent in Australia during the 1990s. A low-key production that goes for gritty realism above everything else, the film this most reminded me of was HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER; it has the same level of harrowing and distressing subject matter while being incredibly powerful at the same time.SNOWTOWN isn't quite up there on a level with HENRY - there are a few too many scenes of people sitting around and eating for a start - but it is an undeniably effective movie. The casual brutality of the movie will make this hard to sit through for many viewers, with the scene involving the dog being particularly gruelling; meanwhile, the bathtub sequence is one of the nastiest I've ever witnessed. Aside from these moments, the rest of the movie is surprisingly restrained, a slice-of-life exploration of how 'white trash' get on with their lives.The acting is fine, particularly from Daniel Henshall in a star-making performance, and the script is very good. I wish there had been a little more resolution at the end but then you can't have everything. SNOWTOWN is about as far away as you can get from a mainstream Hollywood movie and it's all the more effective because of that. And I'll reiterate how incredibly grim it is: would I sit through it again? Not a chance!