Snowtown (2011)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Until this movie and after, absolutely all the movies with psychopaths are a joke. Hollywood movies, horrors, gore films, psychological thrillers and so on are pitiful. None can surprise the reality of a psychopath, more frightening than any fiction, like this movie. Now, I only want to miss this nightmare, although I am proud to have healed myself from any pseudo- psychological understanding of the psychopath. I recommend it the ones less weakest heart in order just to get rid of the same delusions as mine, about the 'humanity of psychopath' - the oxymoron that creates the illusion that you can deal with a psychopath untouched of psychic traumas if you are lucky enough not to be killed by him from pure pleasure.

A perspective on Australia's most notorious serial Killer, John Bunting (Daniel Henshall), as he was seen by Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway), a sixteen-year-old accomplice in series of killings carried out by Bunting and others that came to be known as the Snowtown Murders. The victims were alleged pedophiles, homosexuals, cross-dressers, drug addicts and anyone else the killers determined to be "unclean". When Bunting enters the life of Vlassakis' mother and subsequently takes the young man under his wing, Jamie comes to embrace him as a father figure. The dark path Bunting leads him down is the heart and soul of what makes this story so compelling.The film is extremely well directed and the performances, particularly that of Daniel Henshall as John Bunting, are impeccable. I viewed the film once and had a hard time understanding what was going on in many respects, but after researching the Snowtown Murders and viewing it a second time the intentions of the filmmakers became apparent. What I found to be particularly interesting was how the story was told primarily from the point of view of the killers, and in a way that made it seem as if the filmmakers were almost sympathetic to the killers' perspective. Murder victims were first shown victimizing others, forcing the audience to choose between a feeling of satisfaction or disgust when seeing Bunting ultimately take their lives. This, I would say, is the true strength of this socially conscious film.

A true crime story is always intriguing but this beauty goes beyond. If that's your thing, like it is mine to watch all those documentaries on serial killers, this movie will melt you in your seat. The way the layout of this movie is conveyed it just makes you want more to happen you want to know more. The actors in this movie each suited the role they played and were all perfect. There isn't one thing about this movie I'd change, in fact I could sit here and watch Snowtown over and over because each time I watch it I pick up something new,It's a must see movie, I would recommend this to anyone especially if you liked Chopper (2000). This is portrayed in a very similar way.

This movie may be better than the rating that i am giving it but as a dog lover when they shot an innocent dog 2/10th of the way through the movie that was enough for me. The movie was slow from the start and i was having a hard time staying interested in it anyway. I wished i had never started watching it since it is hard to get the cries of the dog out of my mind. I don't think cruelty to animals in any format is good viewing or necessary. I know this review is totally negative and it may be a good movie but once they killed a dog that was the end of me watching it. I removed the movie from my DVD and broke it in half, because, i my opinion any movie that has cruelty to animals in it needs to be round filed.