Lake Mungo2009
Lake Mungo (2009)
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as Alice Palmer

as Russell Palmer
as Mathew Palmer

as June Palmer
as Ray Kemeny
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Critic Reviews for Lake Mungo
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
Take away the creeping sense of supernatural dread, and what remains is a low-key tale of a mourning family, made more tender by the broken stoicism of the survivors.

This is an underappreciated, underseen gem.
Ghostly shenanigans are dryly delivered in the ambitious, restrained and well-mounted Oz mockumentary "Lake Mungo."

A convincing mock-documentary style lifts "Lake Mungo" beyond spooky supernatural mystery into the realms of emotional truth-telling.

As a ghost story, the underplaying of the actors helps to make the mystery creepily effective, but the mockumentary format is a bit of a cop-out because it allows the filmmaker to avoid all the big dramatic scenes.
Lake Mungo draws you in with convincing performances, an authentic true crime documentary format and some creepy, suggestive imagery - it is just a shame that it doesn't maintain the strong macabre atmosphere until the very end
Audience Reviews for Lake Mungo
As far as horror mockumentaries go, this is a bleak and very well-made study of loss and grief that may not be as scary as it is spooky but builds a compelling mystery as family secrets are exposed and we begin to realize that things are not exactly what they seem to be.
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Very slow, but I guess that it was intended to be that way. Mildly interesting...
Super Reviewer
A mockumentary with actual brains and with a story not build around the gimmick of the "shaky realistic camera" or whatever you want to call it. There are some flaws, the story lacks more juice and it wanders a bit too much on several places. It's a drama with a supernatural background, it bothers to have more compelling characters than just walking cliches. Not a classic but certainly worth a check.

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