#horror – #horrormovies – #LakeMungo – #UmbrellaEntertainment – An essential Australian horror, heralded as a masterpiece in atmosphere, LAKE MUNGO is Director Joel Anderson’s chilling, devastating examination of the hole left in the heart of a family after a death. Styled as a documentary, this found-footage classic has become a cult favourite for critics and […]

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Critique du film LAKE MUNGO réalisé par Joel Anderson, avec Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger. Disponible en DVD/BR chez ESC Éditions.

SPOILERS AHEAD Let’s talk about Lake Mongo. This is a movie that made the rounds a few years ago, and lots of people who are into horror films were talking about it around 10 years after it came out. People seem to really enjoy this movie, and I just cannot get into it. I watched it for the first time a couple years ago, right around the time people were talking about it. I recently re-watched it and I have some thoughts. The movie is a mocumentary following a family a year after the tragic death of their daughter/sister. It is well acted and none of these people seem like actors. It could just as well be a true crime documentary for huge parts of the film. That part is really well done. It’s when they start getting into the supernatural element of it that if falls apart for me. Of course, if you’re going to introduce a ghost, you have to have it be a fake-out at least once, right? They double down on that a few times. Which I find a little bit grating, and that’s part of the distaste for it. I think the thing that really rubs me the wrong way is that essentially the scary part of the movie, apart from the one jump scare, is slowly zooming into photos. I just don’t find that that scary. Maybe I’ve seen too many Creepypastas. That’s a weird image, but I don’t find it particularly scary. I’m...

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