10 Horror Movies You'll Never Watch Again (And Why)
4. Snowtown
The Movie
Based on one of the grisliest crimes Australia has seen in recent years, Justin Kurzel’s directorial debut Snowtown tells of a series of murders committed in a rundown Adelaide suburb by a group of men including impressionable teenager Jamie Vlassakis and John Bunting, a homophobic former neo-Nazi and pseudo father figure to Jamie who coerced his cohorts into killing members of the community he deemed deserving of a brutal death.
Why You'll Never Watch it Again
Although Kurzel may take certain artistic liberties with timescales (the real-life murders actually took place over the course of seven years), Snowtown’s source material – court transcripts, book based accounts of the murders and interviews within the community the crimes were committed – gives it a more accurate basis in reality than say Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer does.
It’s a bleak exploration of how murder most horrid can become banal, normalised and justified and while it’s a brilliant film and in mostly sidestepping the gore could never be accused of being gratuitous, its brutal banality and realism makes it more like an endurance test than a movie.