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Just like Port Arthur, Snowtown in South Australia is well-known for all the wrong reasons. If you’ve been in Australia since the ‘90s (as most of us have), you would no doubt have been chilled by the Bodies in the Barrels case which is easily Australia’s most famous string of serial killings with eleven victims in total. Snowtown is the first film that has dared to deal with this delicate subject matter, taking us back to the ‘90s in Adelaide’s working class suburbia. Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) is an impressionable teenager who’s quite in awe of the new man in his mum’s (Louise Harris) life, John Bunting (Daniel Henshall). John seems like everything that any boy could want for his mother – he’s always smiling and is extremely likeable. But Jamie’s not entirely sold on John and fears soon emerge that his new father figure is hiding something important from his mother. Snowtown provides us with insight into one very damaged soul’s mind.
Title: Snowtown Release Date: 21/09/2011 Rating: MA15+ Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris Videology: Snowtown won the 2011 Adelaide Audience Award. Like These: Henry Lee Lucas, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest |
