Bodie More "The Snowtown Murders" is a 2011 independent film, originally titled "Snowtown", and is based on the true story of numerous murders that were taken place in a small community in Australia. The film's story was written by Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant, the screenplay was written by Shaun Grant and the film was based on the books "Killing for Pleasure" written by Debi Marshall and "The Snowtown Murders" written by Andrew McGarry. The film was the directorial and writing debut for Justin Kurzel who'd go on to make 2015's "Macbeth" and 2016's video game adaptation "Assassin's Creed". "The Snowtown Murders" (TSM) was nominated for 44 independent movie awards and won 22. Now, if you don't live in Australia... I recommend studying the murder case before watching this film. GOOD:-Acting -Writing -Directing -Cinematography -Accuratness to the events -Not afraid to hold back on the dark aspects of the real life storyOKAY:-The plot is a little hard to understand at timesBAD:~NOTHING~ Conclusion:I highly recommend this movie if you are into crime and murder dramas / biopics. It pacts a very emotional punch and characters you can relate to and morals you can understand. The downside I had while watching this was that I live in the US, so I had no idea about this case. I heard about it but never read up or watched anything about it. So if you're going into this movie expecting it to explain everything to... You'll be wrong. I recommend reading 1 of the 3 books that have been written about this story or watch one of the many documentaries that are available on YouTube. Overall, it's a great movie with great acting and is the start of a promising career from Justin Kurzel. I hope "Assassin's Creed" is good. I'm writing this on December 11th, 20116.

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.

Sandu Albert Adrian I don't get what you people like about this film. I went to a film festival a few years ago to see it with a friend. We both watched it and after one hour left the cinema. There was no point in watching any longer. It really didn't make much logic so I don't recommend it to anybody. We waited and waited for something interesting to happen or anything to come together but that was not the case. You kind of get the idea at the start of the movie, but it's kind of downhill from there. And I did not get what was so shocking about this film. There is nothing good about it. Not in my view. But hey, everybody has a way of looking at things.

kyle-vance 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.