Oh boy, this movie gives you some different perspective of Australia in general, and all the bad things they do to aboriginals people, obviously show you what australians really look like. About this messed up movie, I can't even rate it, i just can't believe that i wasted two hours of my life for this .... such a waste.

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.

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!

How long was this movie? Well..I'll never get the time back I spent watching it and waiting for it to actually make sense.. I don't write reviews but I made an exception in this case. Maybe I'll start writing reviews for only bad movies, because I cant believe some of the reviews I read out there that say a movie is great only to waste another 2 hours of my life scratching my head. Don't waste your time on this one. I get that it was about vigilantes, but the way it was put together made me feel like I was the problem for having a hard time following it. Half the time I didn't know who the victim was, or who was the target. Just a whole bunch of scenes thrown together that just don't make any type of real connection. It probably could have made for a really good movie if someone with some experience in film making was involved with it. Just my opinion, Watch it, and please feel free to tell me I'm wrong. But don't say i didn't warn ya!!