Ah! October. I love watching horror movies all year round but in October it really feels like you’re doing something festive with your time.
This movie was pretty good. It’s about a grieving family dealing with the death of their 16 year old daughter after she dies in a drowning accident and then decides to hang around their house. Done in the ever popular mockumentary style featuring interviews, old news footage, audio tapes and photos, its low key attitude makes for some low key frights. There are no outright scares but they manage to make zooming in on a photograph freaky.
Midway through they add on some stuff about the daughter leading a double life and the whole thing gets to feeling very 3rd generation Twin Peaks. Did I mention that the family name is Palmer?
It’s Australian and I read that the people who remade The Ring are going to be remaking Lake Mungo. I will go see this remake. I think it could benefit from a touch of crass American razzle dazzle.
