After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Rated 2.0 / 5 from 1 log on Katalog
A mockumentary story about an Australian teenager named Alice Palmer who goes missing, and the subsequent supernatural happenings. I think that given this film’s reputation, I was expecting it to be scarier… or more shocking… or more groundbreaking… As others have mentioned, the only ‘horror’ was slow zoom-ins of photographs to show ghostly figures. I don’t know if it’s proper to judge a horror film solely on the basis of how scary it is, but I just didn’t find this film to be very affecting one way or another. Usually if a horror film is over the top it’s entertaining, or it finds a balance between being scary and compelling, but this was neither. It was a good story told in a very dull way. I really liked the premise of Lake Mungo, but I believe it would’ve been better if it was either a traditional narrative film, or if there was more actual ‘found footage’. It was hard to suspend my disbelief in a work of fiction that it is shown through long, drawn-out interviews (the movie is primarily consisted of documentary-style interviews with Alice’s family and friends). I know the aim was realism, but I just didn’t find this to be engaging. In the end, there were few redeeming qualities for me. What was the cause and message of all the supernatural things in the film? I didn’t really care.
