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Film Review: ‘The Snowtown Murders’ Marks Auspicious Debut For Director, Lead Actors
Submitted by mattmovieman on March 2, 2012 - 8:39amCHICAGO – With a mixture of brooding unease and morbid fascination, the camera in Justin Kurzel’s fact-based thriller has a tendency to follow characters from behind as they enter a new realm of darkness. It’s the darkness residing outside the dingy walls of a hazardous home in South Australia that draws a damaged young man like a moth to a flame. He’s seeking a father figure, but what he finds is something unspeakable.
