Day 15: Lake Mungo
A horror movie with no blood and no scares? How does that work? Lake Mungo is a documentary style movie, in which 16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a lake. What follows is, I would say, more suitably labeled as an exploration of grief, and how her surviving family deals with their loss. There are a few twists and turns along the way, but no scares, no gore. (The poster, I think, is the scariest part of the movie.) I don’t want to go into the mechanics of some of the twists because if this type of movie is up your alley, you’ll love it. It builds slowly to a disturbing climax which is ultimately quite satisfying. The whole picture is unsettling, and leaves you feeling uneasy. It make some interesting statements about what we hide from people we love. All in all it was pretty good, but you need to be in the right frame of mind and know what kind of movie you’re getting.
