Directed by:
Joel AndersonScreenplay:
Joel AndersonCinematography:
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Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer tragically drowns while swimming in the local dam and in the days that follow her grieving family begins to experience a series of strange and inexplicable events. Seeking the help of a parapsychologist, their search for answers reveals that Alice had been living a disturbed life and hiding dark secrets. Something had haunted their daughter and the terrifying truth awaits at Lake Mungo. (Second Sight)
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The current trend to make horror films look as realistic as possible has reached its peak. If Lake Mungo was a tiny bit more realistic and restrained, it would be a documentary. This type of filmmaking has is advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it’s not badly made or acted, and certainly not too silly, but it’s far from a feast as it only follows the re-enactment of “real events”. I like the documentary format of Blair With and REC (where the characters are filming), but the exaggerated style of Lake Mungo and The Poughkeepsie Tapes (interviews using “archive footage”) is becoming tiring and I sincerely hope filmmakers will soon get bored of it.
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