Lake Mungo

2009 "In 2008, Alice Palmer died… Her nightmare didn't."
6.3| 1h27m| R| en
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After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns in 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 psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
wildblueyonder I guess its just impossible to wrap my head around what people think is good or not good. I will often consult the IMDB rating of a movie before watching it, and I find that in the 5-7 range there is a lot of difference between what I like and what other people like. So in that range I often scan reviews.Can't for the life of me see what would appeal to anyone about this movie, how enough people could have even an above average take on it for it to rate that high.Its terrible. Its shot documentary style, its a bunch of interviews. I think you could realistically watch it and believe its not fiction - hence my rating of 2 and not 1. Other than that not even interesting. Avoid.
meesho 20 This movie is very well made. Atmosphere, nuances, elements; all carefully considered to create realism and still have a psychological horror/thriller twist. I believe the closure the family gets at the end is from finding all possible evidence and none of it leading to them getting rid of their daughter/sister. It should be unsettling to the family that she was being warned by paranormal means and was taken away that way. They don't believe, then they believe because of the son playing tricks, then don't believe again, then at the end believe but it's OK (it was scary when they thought they were being haunted but not when it's haunting your family member to death). The mothers reaction to seeing her daughter in the room during the last psychic session and the daughters reaction to that is also revealing of some dark secret between them. The psychic notices this but is bound by not being able to prove his findings that the family is guilty; that's why that scene turns cold fast. When the family has exaggerated responses to people not telling them certain things or showing them; especially that those things didn't really help with the case says a lot. I can spend much time typing why I see that her family are the killers but re-watch it with that in mind. You'll see what I mean.
lucas This movie was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO boring. My GF who LOVES found footage films was also absolutely bored. Literally NOTHING happens the entire movie. NOTHING.First of all, I don't remember it even saying WHO was making the "documentary". Whoever it was apparently didn't know the basics of video editing or even have common sense. The entire movie is just interviews with people and like 50% of those are next to heavy machinery or similar incredibly noisy thing, meaning you cannot hear ANYTHING anyone is saying.... then it will cut to a night sky or something, which doesn't really help the story in any way and is not related... and then they will cut in just like SUPER LOUD random meaningless sounds. When you put your TV to a volume level where it sounds like the people talking are barely above a whisper, these meaningless loud sounds happen and they are like speaker blowing level. Even if they do interview someone in a quiet room, the constant static and people walking around in other parts of the house are louder than the people talking.... maybe they do this to make it more "realistic"? They literally went out of their way in the editing process to make everything shittier sounding than what I could record with my phone.As for the story.... NOTHING. They say daughter was swimming and presumed drowned in first minute of movie. For the next 55 minutes it is boring interviews with the family showing blurry photos with specks of whatever a million yards away that you would need a microscope to find... and every time they are like "ya this is our daughter".... then it turns out the son faked all of these photos and videos of his dead sister, for no reason at all, using past photos and video. But OMG there is ANOTHER face in the faked video they went over earlier with a magnifying glass, a way more prominent and clear face than the one of their daughter ... and it is a neighbor... turns out their daughter was having threesomes with the neighbor and his wife.... but of course they make this incredibly boring and in no way related or even speculated to be related to what happened to the daughter.... Then 5 minutes before the end they conveniently find a video taken by her friends... who were filming for who knows what reason, they are just running around in the dark and you can't see anything... and they come across the now dead girl (still alive) burying something under a tree. So the family goes out there to dig up what is buried. It is the girls phone. When they watch the last video on the phone it is the girl walking around in the dark, again filming for no reason at all, and she comes across what APPEARS to be her own ghost? And of course they only show that for a second, the most important part of the whole movie, and turn the video off, showing no more in the "documentary".Que last shitty interview with family, with WAYYYYY too loud background noises... "ya, we think maybe she saw her ghost". END MOVIE.Honestly, how are people giving this good reviews? This was the most boring thing I have seen in a LONG long time.
Cristina Ontivero For those of you who aren't sure about watching this film, I say GO FOR IT, as it is not your ordinary found footage type film. It has an exceptional story line, with plenty of twists and turns to keep you glued to the screen. I found the cast quite believable to the point where I sometimes wondered if this really happened. The ending of this film for me was quite sad and brilliant at how it all came together. I love the found footage/lost tape genre, I have watched so many of them that I have concluded the majority of them go like this - a group of people visit a haunted building and when things begin to happen no one believes, then they all start to disappear and yes they all end up dead. But this film had something different, that is whenever something new was discovered this is where the twist and turns come in because the story was now going in a different direction. So without saying anymore take a chance and watch this great Aussie film, you will not be disappointed.