EXCLUSIVE: Your Pet, a Gun, together with a Serial Killer's Eerie Charm in Clip from Aussie Thriller The Snowtown Killings

"Shoot your pet.In . Inside the vein of giant Aussie import Animal Kingdom comes The Snowtown Killings, a chilling thriller using the true story of charming charmer and sociopathic killer John Bunting, who introduced a range of crooks in South Australia simply because they kidnapped, conned, terrorized, and wiped out sufferers utilizing their own community through the 1990's. Get yourself a look in the masterful manipulation capabilities that aided Bunting create the well-known title of Australia's worst killer in Movieline's riveting exclusive clip, featuring Daniel Henshall as Bunting and Lucas Pittaway as his psychologically vulnerable protege -- designated here with showing themselves by undertaking a heinous act at Bunting's behest. In their summary of the film, Movieline's own Alison Willmore known to Henshall's Bunting as "an humble monster," and as you have seen inside the clip below Henshall is wonderfully, and chillingly, unsettling. Director Justin Kurzel's slow-burn pic introduces the well-known killer just like a do-gooder deliverer who procedures in to tug an unwell Australian community up by its bootstraps, drawing his quantity of brethren much much deeper and far much deeper into applying and, frequently, aiding within the own ultraviolent habits when most likely probably the most heinous atrocities are actually committed, it may anyway be understood exactly how these neighbors and pals had fallen under Bunting's destructive spell to start with. First examined within the Cannes Film Festival (where it won the FIPRESCI Prize -- special mention) as Snowtown, The Snowtown Killings is extremely an unsettling but effective watch, but might be worth seeing especially if you are looking at the so-referred to as Australian New Wave. The film hits theaters in limited release today (New you are able to city Friday at IFC Center, 3/15 in LA within the Egyptian) but tend to be viewed now on IFC Evening time VOD. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.