Lake Mungo
HALLOWEEK SCREENINGS! One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – a mockumentary that is equal parts ghost story and family drama – Joel Anderson’s LAKE MUNGO has been fully restored. Alice Palmer was like most 16-year-olds, living in quiet suburbia with her parents and brother. But she had a dark side, and it’s only after her mysterious death that the secrets she held inside could be released. Told through a television documentary, Alice’s story threatens to haunt her family for all time – figuratively and literally. Is it really her ghost that her loved ones see in photos and videos? Or just the memories of a desperate young girl? It isn’t until a terrifying discovery at Lake Mungo that all is clarified … or so they believe. Released to little fanfare in 2008, Joel Anderson’s debut feature eventually amassed a reputation as an unmissable classic of Aussie horror; with its intricate central puzzle, unsettling atmosphere and ominously subdued score, some even regard it as one of the scariest films ever made.