{"id":241,"date":"2014-06-23T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2024-01-27T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:05:34","slug":"the-snowtown-murders-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"The Snowtown Murders-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Snowtown Murders-2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Justin Kurzel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #57<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70230149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70230149-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70230149\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70230149-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70230149.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 23, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Snowtown Murders (2011) is an Australian film, based on a true story, of a charismatic, manipulative man who influences a family of misfits into following his murderous streak.<\/p>\n<p>The film is helped by a group of very talented actors (unknowns to me) who successfully relay a sense of bleakness and despair in their lives and some fine, emotional acting makes this film slightly above average.<\/p>\n<p>The entire look of the movie is dreary, raw, and hopeless, from the lighting to the camera shots. The details of the film are impressive- from the confined, dismal house the family lives in, and the unhealthy meals consumed, all are filled with a sense of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The Snowtown Murders pushes the envelope with the explicitness of the murders and torture scenes, so the viewer is left feeling uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>The downside of the movie is that it drags at times and meanders along at a plodding pace adding to the discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is intentional or not, but it harmed me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowtown Murders-2011 Director Justin Kurzel Starring Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall Scott&#8217;s Review #57 Reviewed June 23, 2014 Grade: C+ The Snowtown Murders (2011) is an Australian film, based on a true story, of a charismatic, manipulative man who influences a family of misfits into following his murderous streak. The film is helped by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Snowtown Murders-2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1147,225,3377,192,3376,3378,204],"tags":[81,1149,226,3380,193,3379,3381,258],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-films","category-australian","category-crime-dramas","category-daniel-henshall","category-dramas","category-justin-kurzel","category-louise-harris","category-thrillers","tag-2011-movie-reviews","tag-australian","tag-crime-dramas","tag-daniel-henshall","tag-dramas-2","tag-justin-kurzel","tag-louise-harris","tag-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19894,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/19894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}