On behalf of
IFC Midnight, please find the new trailer for the winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and winner of 4 Australian Academy Awards,
THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS. The uncompromising film, Justin Kurzel's directorial debut, focuses on the relationship between a vulnerable teenager and a father figure who is revealed to be the worst kind of bully. It follows the events leading up the notorious discovery of dismembered bodies rotting in barrels, discovered by police in Snowtown, Australia in 1999. Director Justin Kurzel's new film will release in New York on March 2nd, 2012 with a national rollout to follow.
Elizabeth Harvey (
Louise Harris) is raising her three boys in Adelaide's poor northern suburbs. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies, she takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead winds up welcoming an even more vicious predator into her home.
John Bunting (
Daniel Henshall) is the moral compass among a circle of friends who hold self-appointed neighborhood watch meetings at the kitchen table. Fueled by cigarettes and beer they cast judgments on those living around them. Bunting enlists his crew in acts of sadistic vigilantism on those he considers deviants takes Elizabeth's son Jamie (
Lucas Pittaway) under his wing. In a mix of misdirected hero worship and terror, Jamie becomes an accomplice to a spree of torture and murder.
Watch the trailer after the Jump...
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