Australia's most infamous crime story
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
- Sexual violence
- Graphic violence
- Body horror
- Bleak ending
- Harm to children
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Bleak, grave, earnest and overwhelming.
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- Dr.KittPerryon TMDB · Mar 2025
**Horror movies generally just don't float my They just* have to have ñg*extra*strong text**Don't get the wrong idea An article I read recently about a woman having spinal surgery who wound up with a severed sciatic nerve definitely did something to my bowels.. ** strong text*blood, gore, jump-scares, torture, dismemberment...I can't say for certain exactly what it is. But it's usually something totally lame that sticks in my mind and try as I might, refuses to let go. Working in medicine and with a good part of that in the psychiatric secure unit has taught me that nothing is as terrifying as what a human is capable of doing to another such human. Í watched Snowtown when it was first released and it had that perfect sense of realism. As events unfold, it's not hard to imagine being drawn into precisely this type of situation and before even realising, finding yourself with no way out other than to dive in yet deeper. Í don't know if audiences in the US could relate in the same way, or maybe it's just because we grew up with f*ck all too. I guess suddenly somebody shows you a little attention and "grooming" simply wasn't a consideration back then. Then when you discove rthis was al
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Cast
- Lucas PittawayJamie Vlassakis
- Daniel HenshallJohn Bunting
- Louise HarrisElizabeth Harvey
- Frank CwertniakJeffrey
- Matthew HowardNicholas
- Marcus HowardAlex
- Anthony GrovesTroy
- Richard GreenBarry
- Aaron ViergeverRobert
- Beau GoslingDavid
Crew
- Justin KurzelDirector
- Shaun GrantScreenplay
- Debi MarshallNovel
- Andrew McGarryNovel
- Adam ArkapawDirector of Photography
- Jed KurzelOriginal Music Composer
- Veronika JenetEditor
- Anna McLeishProducer
- Sarah ShawProducer
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