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That's something that I also noticed when I watched the film. The mysterious death of a girl whose last name happened to be Palmer that shook a small town.

I saw this movie when I was a teenager and thought the ending montage of the photos was meant to be taken as vaguely uplifting or, at worst, generally mysterious and spooky. I think I need to see Lake Mungo again, because now it seems clear from the tone and the themes in the rest of the film that this is an absolute downer of an ending note. Had Alice been appeased, there would be no ghost in the window

The acting by the parents is phenomenal, a seriously underrated film.

Interesting take. Folding Idea's fan huh?

The fact that Alice got stuck in between, tells me that she was murdered. Her soul can not get over the trauma of her unnatural and premature death. She wants justice to be able to move on but does not get it. I am wondering why she did not try to give more clues regarding who had taken her life. Very difficult to see the truth. They are all occupied with themselves with what is happening to them, rather than figuring out what had happened to Alice. They want to get over it which is understandable, yet strange given the circumstances surrounding Allice's life and death.

Dear Elijah, I am glad I have found you. You are great analyst. Thank you.

this movie never scared me. it devastated me. it made me sadder than I had ever been. I was never scared of Alice, never. I pitied her and deeply felt for and identified with her.

I wasn't expecting 2Mello in a video essay about Lake Mungo!

THANK YOU. I know I’m watching this video late, but the analysis channels covering this series have always annoyed me. It isn’t horror; it just touches on a couple of sad themes.

****CLICKBAIT HEADLINE**** Raises the question, _"WHO KILLED ALICE PALMER?"_ ...Proceeds to **NEVER** provide an answer to that question!!!

Something that I noticed is this film uses high pitched atonal noises throughout it that made me think my ears were ringing for a bit - but the uncomfortable way the film's soundtrack actually scrapes around inside your head really enhances for me the idea that this is not simple a ghost story horror movie but a film about nightmare & fiction coming alive inside the heads of the audience.

While the series had some creepy moments, I agree that it’s mainly a heartwarming story. As someone who has an emotionally abusive mother and a mostly absent father. The TV as a kid was my main escape and I too wish I had an angel gabby growing up. Pretty much, the whole time I was watching the series. I kept thinking I wish I had someone like her guiding and being there for me as a kid.

Angel Hare really is something that we can relate to as well. We used tv and shows to escape as well. That’s why Angel Hare touched us, and that’s why we hate when people cover it as dark and have that scary tone. It’s really a sort of “tell me you haven’t faced abuse without telling me you haven’t faced abused” sort of vibe. Those who have been through it can understand it and click with it and it impacts them so greatly. We’re really happy we found this series, and we’re so happy to see someone else make a genuine heartfelt video about it too. It feels weird using plural in a comment, since we typically hide more in comment sections now and pretend to be a singlet, but we feel like a video about abuse and the effects it has and the deep meanings of a piece of art is a fitting place to unmask a bit and show the result of our trauma as well among people who get it. From all of us in The Faraway Galaxy System: We hope you all are in better places now and you’re able to heal and grow. It’s a long long journey, but you CAN make it ❤

The Collector, Splinter, Intruder, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, All American Murder, Mr. Frost with Jeff Goldblum, Suitable Flesh, The Final Girls and Better Watch Out are good horror gems.

I still consider this an analog horror, but in a very specific way. It’s presented in an analog fashion, but the horror, is the reality of the situation. What Jonah was going through as a kid, is horrifying. THATS the horror of it. One comment I saw described it as such “Analog setting reality horror”. And I can see that. Gabby is a lovely character and I wish I’d been able to get a hold of a plushie before the run was up

love the take on the series!

Unlike all other analog horror I've read or watched the media is not the cause of the horror. The horror is ordinary human violence and the media is protective and comforting that allowed the original/main character to be okay at the end.

Thank you, yes. I really relate to your take here, and that segment at 10:27 about media being an escape... seeing Kabuto and the Blue Guy stirred the memories of shows and emotions very key to me.

I love this review. I get your point about other reviewers focusing on the rest of the family. But what about the person at the center of the story? The person who either accidentally drowned, committed suicide by drowning, or was murdered via drowning by her brother? I agree this is a great movie, and I feel like we're missing the point if we ignore Alice.

A big part of the uneasiness, for me at least, that Lake Mungo provides is this sense that there is a lot going on with this family just under the surface, like we see Alice’s brother and parents but also the grandparents and…there’s a lot that isn’t said out loud, but you get the sense no one is what they’re presenting, even to each other. I think if people want to interpret the movie as a commentary on grief and moving forward then…fine, I guess. But I draw the line at acting like it’s a film about a family unit processing their feelings, becoming stronger and moving forward with closure because…that isn’t the truth. The uneasiness is still there. The unspoken secrets and tension this family have as they smile benignly into the camera is still there…and so is Alice.

When there is a young person named Alice in a horror film, you can bet your ass she will be abused by an adult. Probably sexually, but not always. Always look up meanings of character names, and their etymology and mythology, for horror analysis. There. Now there's a thing you know. Also, sorry, but this film isn't scary at all and it's so slow and boring. Sorry, I can't help myself. Thank you.

I never found it scary, but deeply moving. Really beautiful unscripted review of a really beautiful story.

Alice basically being a ghost while living. The emotional neglect from her family and feeling invisible or in the background where you’d only notice if you squint hard enough… the isolation. it’s so real which makes this movie so much more sad :(

“ Angel Hare is the exception” but jokes aside angel hare is peak analog happiness and i love this video

But hold on, doesn't Gabby help Jonah kill his dad? It's implied she helped him hide something "incriminating." And later on Jonah investigates why his dad went missing. I wouldn't consider Gabby a villain, but getting a child to waste someone, abusive father or not, seems a little immoral.

Yeah, the idea her ghost is there to help the family doesn't really make sense. Especially when we consider the last photo - taken just before the family relocates - where Alice is still haunting the house. It's true, Alice isn't like most horror ghosts were they're actively harming people, but she is like most ghosts in that she continues to persist in isolation and sadness, unseen by all those around her, and there's nothing she can do about it. How the family moves on has nothing to do with Alice's ghost. They move on because of time and reflection. Alice's ghost just happens to be there. What's more, she'll continue to haunt the place apart from the family.

I think Wendigoon's stream was better than Night Mind's dark, creepy take. Even though Wendigoon thinks Angel Gabby is a demon. I'm hoping she's on the good side and protected Jonah from an abusive parent or uncle.

Its truly sad how some kids are never given a chance.... so many kids had no angle Gabby

I always saw it about guardian angels that communicate exclusively through media from one specific company (Both Angel Hare and Wylde Hare have the same company logo if you look) because any kind of communication other than that would be dangerous. It actually makes me wonder what other Angel Hares are out there keeping kids safe and what other shows this company produces. Also? I would REALLY love an A24 spin on this concept.

Yo is that the Fire Walk With Me tv at the start?

That unsettling scene and the following ones reminded me a bit of the endings of some Pupi Avati-written works, notably "Voci Notturne" and "Dove Comincia La Notte"

I think the brother Matt killed his sister

What I really want to know, is why she cheated on her boyfriend and had a threesome with her two old neighbors?

This is absolutely terrifying, tragic and heartbreaking... Hearing her describe how she felt after the fact should send chills down anyone's spine. There's only one song I can think of that sums this all up, even if it's not entirely accurate: Silent Hill 4 - The Room - "Waiting For You"

Thank you for not attempting to answer the question of the thumbnail...

Honestly, Angel Hare has to be the most heart-warming fictional analog media, it really brings comfort to me as someone who has a troubled childhood. Sure it has some dark moments but most of the time, it's petty wholesome. The ending especially made me tear up.

I can't remember which creators, but I found it strange that other horror analysis content creators that I still respect and I know are smarter than this still used clickbait titles and thumbnails like "the darkest analog horror series ever made" or "cartoon teaches children how to kill." At least in Nick Nocturne's case, even though he still makes good videos and still introduces me to great series (in fact, he was what introduced me to Petscop in the first place), he has been hit or miss in recent years (his biggest blunder were his Petscop videos after his first one. He's become a walking punchline in the Petscop community due to his clear lack of interest, passion or respect in the series and his poor analysis of the videos, which were a far cry from his other videos on series like Marble Hornets, This House Has People In It, Alantutorial, etc.). And Theft King... well he's Theft King, what do you expect.

Thank you for making this video. While watching the movie, I always thougt: What if she was murdered and no one is talking about it?

Idk how people came to the conclusion of angel hare was a super dark. Yeah. I can see it as unsettling. Who wouldn't be unsettled by a fictional character talking and interacting with real people. This is a really refreshing take on the analog genre. It's wholesome and relatable. It does have its dark elements, but what cartoon show doesn't at some point?

I really appreciate this reading of the film, it's something I saw as someone who had similar lived experiences as Alice Palmer 🌸

Jonah is an unreliable narrator. He admits that he doesn't remember everything, in the fact that he's trying to remember the truth. The presentation is through a jarring video that flashes and stutters and jumbles itself. I was a ripe bastard of a child, and that no doubt contributed to why my parents divorced. Not every child is innocent. The reason why angel hare speaks to me is that it's telling me to stop pretending I can escape into some fantasy world where all of MY fantastic God wishes come true. There are consequences to MY actions. And I can see the story in the gaps of angel hare where it could be that the narrative is of a delusional child whose only source of abuse was himself. He only pretended that his father was abusive pounding on the door. He only pretends that the scars he has was from his father. In fact they're all self-inflicted, and Jonah is guilty of killing his father in a fit of rage over some minor thing, perhaps his father turning off Jonah's favorite TV show. And if this truly is some sort of supernatural event, then Angel Gabby is a demon whispering promises and promoting violent behavior in jonah. The true goal in any viral video is to be so ambiguous but you create a controversy. You never say outright anything, and let analysis channels create more content for you. This is most starkly seen in Christopher nolan. In interviews, he's explicitly stated that he wants the viewers to make the content for him. He wants everything to be so ambiguous that everyone's talking about it, explicitly demonstrating that he never had an actual vision behind it in the first place. Everyone talking about it was the point, fooling everyone into thinking there was something more there that needed to be figured out. There never was. He deliberately created a void and asked us to make content for him. That's not storytelling. That's a trick. That's clickbait.

I love this film I was 19 and going to media school in Adelaide when it was banned in Australia and I was obsessed When I got to see it it was better than I even imagined Finding this video has made my night, you're awesome

I saw this film years ago and watch it regularly because nothing frightens me the way it does. I have never seen it as the family moving on from their grief to a happier existence but in fact what you suggest, which is that they’ve forgotten Alice in the name of “healing” and left her behind as she had always been even when she was alive. When it comes to who killed her, I never believed anyone did. I think it was a tragic anomaly in which she saw herself dead on that school field trip and knew from then on she would die. She didn’t know how, she didn’t know when but she couldn’t stop it. I always interpreted it that she simply drown and in the moment she began to drown, realized this was it and no one was even looking for her or paying attention. I think when she wrote in her diary about feeling heavy and drugged it didn’t mean drugged in the literal sense but the horrible sense of death approaching perhaps how she felt moving into the afterlife and being in limbo. I love that we don’t have all of the answers but one thing we can be certain of is that she was alone in life as she ends up in death which is both heartbreaking and terrifying.

This interpretation, i 100% agree with. It didnt sit right with me that other essays insisted on lake mungo being a story of grief and moving on from the death of a loved one. It seemed so disconnected and yet also self centred. Something that particularly stood out to me is the superficial framing of the final montage of the movie, where critics and presumably the family alike are shocked to learn that "omg alice was there all along thats crazy!" And yeah maybe it is a bit crazy, but through the framing that Lake Mungo gives the audience, it reallt isn't. And further with this essays interpretation of the text, it *really* shouldn't be that surprising that the family was so preoccupied with their own interests that they once again neglect their daughters presence - instead focusing on their projected and inherently false imags of Alice

Spoilers in my question so read with caution! Do we believe Alice's mother when she tells the medium she can no longer see Alice in her bedroom? I think the photo evidence of Alice's ghost being there (even in the faked photos), Alice saying she can see her Mother walking away, and the slow zoom into the front window of the house when the family is leaving for good tell a different story. It haunts me most that her mother might have chosen not to see Alice in her room when she really could. I don't think the filmmakers want to imply she's a horrible person or anything but want to make a point about how deciding to move on from grief is a moment you have to face and that you may always retain a sense of guilt to the person you are leaving behind.

Someone needs to make an expectations vs reality short making fun of all that clickbait.

I watch these “analysis” and they misunderstood the story. Their no dark meaning or death. There’s a mystery but that about it. It still a good series

Fucking THANK YOU! This is not a horror series and it drives me wild seeing creators bait and switch trying to get views while blatantly misrepresent the amazing content. Great content!

the moment i dug into this series i subconsciously made an emotional attachment to it. like gabby is my new comfort character type of attachment

I honestly always though it was her brother, between the bruises on him after her death and the fact she was last near him before she disappeared. It recontextualises his decision to fake proof of his sister still existing after death, like it reads as the desperate actions of a guilty brother.