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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I'm a huge horror fan. The first horror movie I saw was A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was thirteen years old, and since then, I was hooked. It's probably my favorite movie genre, and one of my favorite genres in all forms of entertainment. I feel like I've "seen it all", so to speak, in all the various sub-genres of horror. Mainstream, indie, sci-fi, psychological, monster, black and white classics, found footage, etc. You name it, I've probably seen it. But I've never seen anything quite like Lake Mungo.It's not really the style of the movie, per se, that was so different, because I've seen faux documentary style horror movies before. But the things that happen in this one...it's been a long time since a horror film made me feel this way.When I sat down to watch it, all I knew was the basic plot. A teenage girl drowns, and afterwards her family starts experiencing some strange events. I thought it was going to be your typical haunted house ghost story, but it was so much more than that. The movie sets up this fascinating mystery, with multiple twists and reveals, and it keeps you guessing the entire time. Eventually though, it all leads up to one scene in particular. Basically, the entire movie builds up to this moment, and what happens is so unexpected and horrifying, I couldn't believe it. There were no cheap jump scares here. No "aha! gotcha!" moments. The scene earned every second of the fear it made me feel. I had to force myself not to cover my eyes.This is one of the most tense, uneasy atmospheres I've experienced while watching any movie, not just horror. One of the best slows burns, with a great payoff. I was thinking about this for days after I watched it. Absolutely unforgettable.

It's extremely rare that I experience genuine chills as I did watching this film. An unsettling ghost story that doesn't rely on cheap jump scares or horror clichés, Lake Mungo is a welcome breath of fresh air to the genre. I'm disappointed in myself for not discovering it sooner and surprised that Hollywood hasn't got their grubby mitts on it yet for the inevitable remake. 10/10

Of all the 'Found-Footage' movies I've seen, Lake Mungo is the one that stands out. For one, the whole documentary 'feel' to it is incredibly realistic, and two, like a real documentary, Lake Mungo is actually shot beautifully. Perhaps it should be called a 'faux-documentary' horror film instead.Every thing about this movie is great, and this is coming from someone who finds most ghost stories rather boring. But Lake Mungo is performed so incredibly that I could imagine many viewers thinking that it was actually a real documentary about a case of possible supernatural activity.I wouldn't say the movie is scary so much as it is unsettling. Through the acting and careful pacing, Lake Mungo tells a story that for once is believable. There are no flying chairs or bleeding walls here. In fact, I found this movie much more plausible seeming than many documentaries of poltergeists that I've watched.Truly a gem, worth the 2.99 on Amazon.

Like all good ghost stories, Lake Mungo, lingers in the mind long after the closing credits, its tendrils creepily entwining themselves in the mind, haunting the viewer with its ideas of a person who is haunted by their own ghost. In this way, Lake Mungo combines a naturalistic non-actorly made-for-TV documentary style that is convincing in its quotidian banality, with a clever self-reflexive narrative device used in such films as Polanski's surreal nightmare, The Tenant, and Lynch's under-appreciated classic, Lost Highway. Like this other films, Lake Mungo folds in on itself in a way that can only be described as clever, uncanny and truly chilling.