Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I won't go into the plot. But this film is a visual masterpiece. It very slowly and steadily goes from being a somber character study to being a very disturbing and gripping horror. The dialogue is fairly terse and to the point - the visual tells the story. You could watch it without the sound and be just as entertained. It might even be more effective. The tension begins immediately and you don't quite know why it's there, save for the title. But it never releases its grip, but it also doesn't really grow. That same, steady, unrelenting level of tension is there, all along, whether the scene depicts children playing around the dinner table, a pastor at a church addressing his flock, a rainy scene of a dilapidated back yard, or a grisly, realistic torture killing. Brilliant really. You feel uneasy when the film is calm, and when there's a sharp upturn in violence, you expect the music or the cinematography or a character to well up with emotion to match it, but it holds you steady, not allowing you to feel an overture, like it's holding your head making you watch. Very disquieting. One of the better indie films I've ever seen.

The press junket and first wave of critical notices built Snowtown up as a throat ripper that will cause you nightmares. That didn't do it any favours as per expectation levels for the horror enthusiast. However, this is a superb piece of film making, a real gritty and grainy deconstruction of the human condition gone sour. As with all films of this type that are based on real life incidents, it pays to read up on the facts if you be so inclined. Debut director Justin Kurzel doesn't shirk from the horrors of the case, but skillfully he doesn't bang everyone over the head with shock tactics to grab the attention. It's a relentlessly bleak picture, there's a continuous build of impending dread, of human devastation wrung out by a master manipulator (Daniel Henshall as John Bunting superb), the depressing story told through the eyes of the simple and confused Jamie Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway).Not to be watched if one is looking to be cheered up! But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be sought out as essential cinema. It's a strong and potent film, worthy of inspection by adults who understand that not all film is about entertainment. 8.5/10

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!!