Monday, October 01, 2018

Lake Mungo

Lake Mungo is a 2008 Australian horror film. It's presented as a documentary-style look at a family grieving over the drowning death of their daughter. This is a sad movie, not scary at all.



Variety calls it "ambitious, restrained and well-mounted". Moria has a mixed review. HorrorNews.net says it's "quite a interesting and intelligent movie that knows how to keep its audience glued to the activities and facts presented."

DVD Talk says, "in its own way it's much more frightening than most of the schlock fests regularly served up in that genre" and concludes
Lake Mungo is a different kind of horror film. It doesn't follow a traditional narrative, and lacks gore and cheap scares. What it does have is a powerful story, believable and familiar characters, and a subtle, creeping atmosphere of dread that pervades the film. This is a superior effort, one that will keep you up at night.
Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 93%.

6 comments:

  1. It reminded me of one of those true crime dramas i enjoy watching, but with a twist of a girl possibly foreseeing her death. I wonder if this is supposed to be a real story, because it certainly felt like one.

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    1. It's not based on a true story, that I can see anyway... I liked it for being so different from what I usually see out there.

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  2. Sounds like a good Halloween story.

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    1. It's nice (well, I think it's nice lol) to have a variety of horror and some new and different options for the season.

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  3. Sounds spooky! Valerie

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