Lake Mungo (2008) on Netflix
Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a dam in Ararat, Australia. Her family buries her, then unexplained noises fill the house and a figure appears in photographs taken in the yard.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb6.2/1039,199 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
Trailer
Plot summary
Alice Palmer is sixteen when she goes missing during a family swim at a dam in Ararat, Australia; days later the body is recovered from a stormwater drainage basin. Her father Russell identifies the remains, and her mother June will not look at them. Mathew, Alice's brother, finds mysterious bruises on his torso ten days after the burial, and noises in the house go unexplained. Russell reports one hostile apparition, and June has repeated nightmares of her daughter's soaked body. Mathew photographs the yard, and a figure resembling Alice shows up in the pictures. Unsettled, the family seeks out Ray Kemeny, a psychic and parapsychologist, who holds a séance.
Cast
- Rosie Traynoras June Palmer
- David Pledgeras Russell Palmer
- Tania Lentinias Georgie Ritter
- Cameron Strachanas Leith Ritter
- Judith Robertsas Iris Long
- Robin Cumingas Garret Long
- Marcus Costelloas Jason Whittle
- Chloe Armstrongas Kim Whittle
- Carole Patulloas Sargent Drouin
- John Dunnas Funeral Director
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lake Mungo (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After Lake Mungo, director Joel Anderson gave no interviews after 2009, made no other film and has no known social media pages, which he suggested contributed to the film's mystique as a cult film; he wanted viewers years from now to wonder whether it was real.
- Director Joel Anderson cast low-profile actors to keep the documentary feel authentic and gave them no written dialogue, only a story outline, so they improvised their scenes; he also voiced the offscreen interviewer but stayed uncredited.
- Joel Anderson wrote the bulk of the screenplay in 2005 while struggling to fund a different screenplay that required a much larger budget, so he turned to a fictional documentary-style story he could film on a low budget.
