Saturday Night at the Movies - Snowtown...

The drinks in Cineworld are TOO BIG! There I've said it!

Q. Is there anything more depressing than going to the flicks in Glasgow by yourself on a Saturday night?

A. The only thing more depressing than going to the flicks in Glasgow by yourself on a Saturday night is choosing to watch Snowtown at said flicks in Glasgow by yourself on Saturday night. Mind you it would be still be more depressing even watching Snowtown with a loved one or an entire troupe of clowns. This film is grim, grim, grim. 

Spoiler alert: There aint no snow in Snowtown just hopelessness and depressing violence and lots of it!

It is the gruesome story of John Bunting, Australia's most notorious serial killer, who led and controlled others to cover up or take part in his crimes, including teenager Jamie and his mother Elizabeth Harvey. It is through Jamie's eyes that the story is told and what a horrible story it is. Bunting and his accomplices killed eleven people during the 1990's and although the film concentrates on the friendship between Bunting and Jamie and it's turn for the disturbing as he begins to exert his violent influence on him, it is drenched with extremely graphic depictions of the violence and has been slammed by one critic as "Depraved" and "close to a snuff movie." Wolf Creek is a walk in the park in comparison.

It was the Christmas shoppers I felt sorry for. Straight out the shops and into Cineworld and about ten minutes into the film they began to flee with their Christmas spirit in tatters. After the bleak opening of the film and the inkling that this was not a festive romp in a winter wonderland growing into a gigantic penny plummeting to earth, they could not get themselves and their shopping bags out of the cinema quick enough. I can only imagine the sick fear they must have felt that their lovely, shiny Christmas gifts may end up tainted by the on screen horror. No you will not ruin Granny's Christmas jammies with this filth - not on my watch!! It would be on a par with the parents in the new John Lewis advert opening that lovely big parcel, that their son has been so excited  to give them, only to discover it contains the severed head of Rudolph!? (Don't tell Santa I said that!)

So... Saturday Night at the Movies. Who cares which picture you see? I care! And so I warn  you don't go and see Snowtown. It's too grim. It may ruin the rest of your weekend and it will ruin your Christmas buzz. I am going to have to watch Home Alone 1, 2 and 3 today just to get back on an even keel!