Movie No. 89 (2016): LAKE MUNGO

Lake Mungo (2009)
Director: Joel Anderson
Cast: Talia Zucker, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe

This horror film is a documentary film, or, at least, presented as one. To think this really happened makes the movie even scarier.

It all starts when Alice drowned in a dam while having picnic with her parents and only brother. The death is followed by eerie, ghostly apparitions in the family's house and in video and photographic captures. What makes the story more interesting is the accidental discovery of Alice's dark secrets that eventually leads them to Lake Mungo. 

The director and writer could have opted to use the usual narrative (non-documentary) template. But this decision to use the documentary template makes the movie more interesting and engrossing. The horror is real.

Rating: 4.0/4.0

Date seen: December 30, 2016