Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

prabhushakti This review contains spoilers. A documentary style film, as the director visualised in his mind, and a cheap belief of what it is based upon. I absolutely lost my patience while watching this movie, because I wanted to see a good movie and all it had is how it wanted to be, which I appreciate but unfortunately I hatred it because I was thinking why is it not in some informative channel's stupid shows than a movie? I thought about Häxan - 1922. A film, I love so much because not only it is entertaining but also very well shot and represented. I also thought about "it follows" which I believe is another great horror film in the history of cinema. While watching this Australian director's film, I could not see what else it has that there never have been before or is it important as long as the film is good at it. Does this movie show us anything we have never seen? What I hated the most is the blend of dialogues and music. The cheap creepy background music was so high, that you absolutely have to feel the poor suspense the director forces us to feel so desperately, but it was so painful and disgusting far from disturbing. I only felt bad about the privacy of the family involved in the film, if it is based upon the real story which I don't wish to research on. I will tell you my analysis about the first creepy photo of the dead body and last same living video of the creepy faced body: A saddist murdered or psychopath did the horrible things to her face, who had all her possessions, and before killing her, he/she recorded her sadism and buried it in the ground so nobody could find it. Maybe he has been giving her drugs and raping her, which caused her to go through anxiety or depression of death and all those nightmare. Maybe the sadist is not anymore than the Hungarian hypnotiser. Now irrational but dumb people would like it, and some cheap people would spend some bucks to turn it to the most horrible horror film. I want to explain here - a lot of people like the end creepy footage - I found it absolutely horrible because again the cheap creepy sound gave me a headache

tm-juli This Australian picture is without a doubt a scary flick. It is a difficult movie to sell, because it doesn't work in conventional horror movie ethics like the popular horror movies nowadays, which make bank in 2017. And also "Paranormal Activity" is an easy comparison, because of its found footage approach, "Lake Mungo" is pretty different in what it's trying to accomplish. "Lake Mungo" depicts grief. Grief of parents, trying to figure out if or why her daughter suddenly died. Grief of the older brother, who's stuck with his mourning mom and dad. The scariness doesn't (only) lie within the supernatural, but mostly within the effect, such tragedies have on the family members. But the ones who like their ghost stories won't be disappointed, for there is some creepy home-video footage and very unsettling pixelated imagery. The movie doesn't tell you everything, so your mind will have to do the work, what makes the end product a lot more scary than over-explaining the background story or the mythology of something. I am someone who is easily frightened by a found footage movie. I love "The Blair Witch Project" and some "Paranormal Activity"-movies (especially the first one) and "Unfriended" and "Rec", because you are engaged in those movies in a very different way, than in conventional horror flicks. And "Lake Mungo" is a perfect addition to the found footage movies, who use the technique the right way. It uses all kinds of amateur formats, from camcorder to mobile-phone-camera and perfectly uses the low definition to create some of the most unsettling images you've seen. Sadly the audio suffers from the absolute dedication to only amateur and documentary filmmaking. The music and the background sound is always louder as the people speaking, which is not very pleasant and pretty disturbing (which should be a good thing in a horror movie). Also you really have to be in the mood for this movie and ready to let you creep out by low definition photographs and the unsettling meaning behind them, instead of demon faces and loud jump scares. If not, you could be annoyed or bored.But if you can ignore the very weak audio mixing and you can get into the experience, you're in for a treat. A very slow-burn horror story, with some very terrifying themes and haunting images.

znegative 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.

eddie_baggins An extremely low budget and low key Australian horror done in the faux-documentary style that has now well and truly worn out its welcome, Lake Mungo is impressive in what it does with limited resources and its ambition is to be commended but a big problem with this now cult film is that it's sadly not very scary.Whilst suitably creepy at times as Lake Mungo wears on towards it's slight 80 minute run time the films initial chilling set-up slowly descends into something that becomes unfortunately tiresome even though the film's final credits scenes provide some unnerving finishing moments.While criticisms can be easily made of Lake Mungo's inability to capitalize on its promising cornerstones director Joel Anderson certainly must be commended for sticking to his low-budget guns and delivering a mock-doc that to the uninitiated may absolutely seem like a legitimate documentary! Using grainy phone footage, good use of talking heads and fake news reports, Anderson crafts a tale that actually feels real even if the story its telling becomes a little far-fetched and lacking. Telling the story of the sad demise of young Alice Palmer in this way allows Anderson to hide the films limitations in ways that don't take away from the films central premise and only some clunky delivery of dialogue really gives Lake Mungo's sleight of hand away.One of the more impressive Australian horrors of recent times (although that's not entirely an amazing feat) and perhaps the best locally made example of a faux documentary yet produced (again not exactly tough competition), Lake Mungo has clearly in the years since its release found an appreciative audience that it failed to find upon initial runs these now many moons ago and you could do a lot worse than making Lake Mungo your horror fix over the slowly dying Paranormal Activity franchise or any other such higher profile wannabe.3 buried cell phones out of 5