Lake Mungo

And this weeks Friday night movie has been.... Lake Mungo!

Original image located here. Accessed 16th October 2026

And here we go with a low budget horror movie from my home country. It is indeed expected that a lot of first-time film-makers will rely on the horror genre as it is one that will generate an audience keen to freaked out and provides an opportunity to flex some creative muscles whilst working in the confines of a limited budget. 

So what this is a movie from 2008 that is presented as a documentary: a teenaged girl drowns in a lake and this movie has the fallout from the people who knew her - that is at first because things soon take a turn for the unsettling....

I have previously said that mood and atmosphere is one of the most effective tools in the toolbox of someone making a horror movie and boy does this movie know it. What may start out as a collection of talking heads soon gives way into a building of dread. Sure there some twists and turns in the plot but that dread doesn't stop and boasts some effective jump scares. 
This movie may be unassuming at first but it knows exactly what it's doing and has a sense of dread that other movies can only dream of.