IFC Midnight is bringing the harrowing true story of THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS to theaters next month. 

It's a bit of a shame SNOWTOWN is being released here as THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS, a title which brings to mind a sub-SEVEN DTV movie, but don't let that dissuade you. The film is Justin Kurzel's gripping, and terribly sobering account of "Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris), a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. After her latest boyfriend displays pedophilic tendencies, she takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming an even more vicious predator into her home. John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) is the moral compass of a self-appointed neighborhood watch who, fueled by cigarettes and beer, cast judgments on those living around them. Bunting enlists his crew in acts of sadistic vigilantism on those he considers deviants, and in the process takes Elizabeth's son Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) under his wing. THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS is an uncompromising film focused on the relationship between vulnerable teenager and a father figure who is revealed to be the worst kind of bully."

THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS is in select theaters March 2, 2012

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