Lake Mungo: DVD Review

Lake Mungo: DVD Review

Lake Mungo
Rating: M
Released by Madman
A doco style horror, Lake Mungo is an Aussie film about a sixteen year old girl Alice Palmer who drowns in the local dam.
Initially the family's overcome by the tragedy after her body's discovered - but then they start to see visions of Alice in the house - and in photos and videos.
Calling in a parapsychologist, the Palmer family begins further investigations&.however, that's when the true reality starts to come to light.
You really need to see this film before the team behind the Ring horror series get their hands on it - it's moody, evocative, creepy and disturbing. Cleverly put together, the doco style helps lend a sense of verite to the events unfolding in front of you on the screen - and the fact it's wonderfully understated and underplayed will give you goosebumps.
It's hard to talk about this without spoiling it - and to talk of spoilers is to build a mystique which isn't perhaps there.
Suffice to say this is an effective supernatural onion of an eerie film - as the layers gradually unpeel, there are some real jolts and surprises as the twists are unveiled. It's also just the right length - which seems like an odd thing to say but any further prolonging of events could put you off.
Recommended - and you may feel a little unsettled afterwards....
Extras: Deleted scenes, commentary and trailer.

Rating: 8/10