LAKE MUNGO (2008) Ending Explained
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2022
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Often considered one of the scariest movies of all time, Lake Mungo is a chilling faux documentary about a family dealing with an unexpected tragedy. As they search for answers they uncover more layers to the mystery of Alice, and things start hinting at the possibility of the supernatural at play. We're breaking down the story's many twists and rug pulls, looking at the movie's grander themes, as well as explaining the shocking ending.
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The sequence where Alice meets her dead self at the lake is still terrifying to me after several watches- the final picture of her face framed in terror beside her oblivious friends is perfect, imo.
@Slender man😈 stupid
@Slender man😈 I have. It insulted my mother, so I called upon Thor and he granted me Mjolnir to slay it. I now have its featureless head on a pike. The only drawback was the condition that they make a horrible movie version where it gives LSD trips to random teenagers.
@Slender man😈 That’s the one I was referencing. She was in the library when she starting tripping balls and seeing Slender Man approach her.
@Slender man😈 The Operator*
@Slender man😈 It's really actually sad when people have to hijack popular comments and debate themselves for attention.. could you maybe at least try responding to whoever you're using while you're at it?
@Azure Dystopia This one stuck in the back of my mind for years and only now after another random review did this part click with me; she wasn't taking her premonition lying down, likely hid her valuables (and phone with proof) just in case someone trying to mug her caused her death (she only saw the result, not how she got there..) and she stuck around the family home afterwards because she had unfinished business.
Seeing so many people project depression and worse onto her fate really bugs me.
Others have said the movie was more depressing than scary, and I agree. Alice's friends and family did not see her in life, nor did they see her in death. She was and will continue to be alone.
So accurate
The fact that they moved on without realising that she was there all the time, and still was there in the end is really sad
@@leonardohenrique5172 Yes. I do wonder though, if Alice committed suicide and if this was her mortal sin. There was nothing that Alice could have done in her life to deserve this punishment. Of course, I'm only applying this religious definition to this fictional movie.
Nah this movie scared the living shit outta me as a teen
@@LuCiGough maybe she did kill herself. She knew her death was coming but not when or how. Maybe she couldn’t do it anymore, and she drowned herself
7:00 i love that if you go back to the faked photographs when they first appear in the movie, the "actual" Alice ghost is there. You don't see her because the zoom is drawing your attention to the brother. The same way the family is focusing on their grief, and they don't see Alice either.
Where?
@@shorty94ism Pause at that time code. The camera is zooming in to the left. Look to the right under the umbrella frame, on it's right side. A much shorter figure with a pale face. They will zoom in on this figure when they go back to these photos in the credits, but it is also there earlier in the movie, and you'd see it if they weren't diverting your attention.
I think that is clever.
@@liampezzano or its on the credits
Maybe the brother just lied to get peoples attention off her death and the ghost story?
I loved this aspect of the film as well. There's a video in "Sinister" that shows up twice and a certain detail only shows up in it the second time. I paused the movie to go back and see if it was hidden in it the first time around and it wasn't. When I listened to the director's commentary he admitted that it was a cheat. I accepted that because Sinister was really good, but then a few months later I saw Lake Mungo.
In addition to being struck by how amazing the movie was as a whole, I greatly appreciated the fact that they did not cheat. The "hidden" images in the various shots are not hidden at all, they just go largely unnoticed because the movie does such a great job of distracting us to look elsewhere. While I thought (correctly, it turned out) that I saw the hidden Alice in the brother's photo, I completely missed every other instance. I didn't catch her in the birthday scene, I didn't even see the child molester neighbor hiding in the brother's video. Yet when I looked back after seeing the film, sure enough, they were there plain as day.
This movie did EVERYTHING brilliantly.
Every time I get a notification from found flixs I feel like I'm about to huddle around the campfire with a bunch of other people and listen to him tell us a spooky story!
I brought the s'mores!
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*yes exactly*
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I've got the hotdogs!! Vegan and meat kind!!
You are 💯 on this
As a mother of a teen daughter, this movie was absolutely gut-wrenching and horrifying to me. The thought of losing a child is bad enough but this movie takes that to another level with the discovery that Alice suffered with these scary premonitions of her own demise, she couldn't connect to her family after her death, and then had to watch as they moved on without her. It left me feeling emotionally devastated.
I agree with you. I had a difficult time watching this movie. It was brilliant.....and I hated it. I prefer my horror movies to have endings that justify all the trials and tribulations a proptagonist must go through, otherwise it feels more like real life, where sad endings are quite common. However, I do not believe she is trapped within the house. She can clearly move about outside, and one day they will be together again regardless.
In order to sleep at night, that is how I choose to look at the movie.
@@AlexLifeson1985 I hadn't thought of it this way. Interesting!
that's a good interpretation of it.
Oh Sunshine... go and hug your daughter and remember, there are young women out there who wish you adopted them:)
I think it's also heavily implied near the end that Alice's premonition of her mother leaving her in the future deepened her feelings of hopelessness, possibly leading to her demise. All these events are connected through time in a nonlinear fashion, that it's difficult to find a single starting point.
This movie creeps me out. Beyond just the fear, this movie legitimately creeps me out.
It’s one of those movies that brings down my mood every time it comes to mind.
It's like the machinist
@@fulcrum7455 Ah that’s another one
Alice seeing the future of her own death kinda reminded me of the Haunting of Hill house. A very similar spin on a modern ghost story
For sure
I'm reminded of The Thing from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.
Instead of jumpscares, they do something much, much scarier. They will show a random photo, or a random video, which will just seem normal. Everything looks as it should, and then after a bit, it was start to slowly zoom in on something that you didn't see before. It's terrifying, it makes your skin crawl, your heart race. True horror.
The most terrifying of all the zooms though, are the ones in the credits. Always freaks me out to no end.
Can't agree more
AGREED
The False Sense of hope you get when you see a normal picture, but then the zooming starts and you start frantically looking around the affected area to see where it is, until you finally see it and it just keeps getting closer and closer until their visage is in your face and you can’t look at a different corner of the screen because your eyes are attached to the horror infront of you.
more of a uncanny valley
The saddest horror movie, nobody talks about. Truly is a masterpiece.
He literally just talked about it
@@animuchan6136 commented before watching the video. Regardless, yeah, you're right.
Ryan Hollinger reference?
@@river8142 yup. You know it
Most horror fans talk about this movie... it's recommended nearly every time in lists.
It's just an old movie. People don't talk about NON horror movies from this long ago for the most part.
It took me a few watchings to realise they led Alice's spirit back to the house- there's a mention of leaving lights on as an invitation? as well as covering mirrors being a cultural belief, and the family, when coming back from the dam had to drive backwards. The dad kept his headlights on the whole time and essentially led Alice back home, as well as leaving the porch light on for her. They led her back home but couldn't see her.
I also believe in the brother killing her theory, like his photography being obsessive over her, and he hid in her room once to film her? I think the vision the dad had was her yelling at Matt as he was filming her. Also the weird bruising, either bring from her as a ghost attacking him or fighting him off while swimming in the dam. I do think she was trying to tell them it was him.
I'm glad you covered this, lake mungo is one of my favourites.
I think that was the Psychic's family beliefs, not the Palmers.
This is an amazing theory that makes full sense. I also think that scene where Alice’s dad sees her yelling at him to ‘get out’ was just what alice wanted to show her father that her brother was stalking her without her notice. Just as the video the brother shot of her suddenly.
Absolutely amazing film
That’s a really nice interpretation. I always wondered about the reversing thing.
A lot of people think the brother did it
I had always felt her yelling at the sound her Dad made was her being freaked out over her approaching doom. She saw and heard things others did not.
Wild timing for this video! I Literally just showed my horror homies this movie and the complete silence from shock and sadness when the credits hit was so great. Such an underrated gem, with an ultra unique format covered by an awesome channel! Great job man!
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seeing dickey here made my day. love the new tracks sir ily
Love your music Dickey your band is amazing and its really cool seeing you comment on these horror channels I love
Epicest crossover of the year !
It's just the fact that Alice felt so, so overlooked and even neglected by her parents in life, that she found solace and comfort in her predatory neighbors who abused her, which is what ultimately I think lead to her demise... then in death, she was overlooked and forgotten again. Just heart breaking.
Neglected by her parents, did I miss that bit? It also says she was very close to her brother. But maybe some abuse or neglect caused some distance, depression etc.
If you watch the video you will see it mentioned that the family has a family history of emotional neglect. The grandmother mentioned that she had trouble connecting with her daughter, and the mother implies the same. Throughout the movie Alice’s mother didn’t want to “see” her daughter or “couldn’t see” her daughter. Yeah, you can take it literally, but there are so many references in the move to Alice “not being seen” or “nobody really knew Alice” that I think it’s very clear that she came from an emotionally neglectful family.
I also have to disagree that teenagers are “sex-driven.” That isn’t true. They aren’t anymore sex driven than people in their 20s. Teens do tend to lack boundaries around sex, especially if they aren’t given guidance and proper supervision by family members. In the movie, Alice seems to seek out an emotional connection with a creepy couple who likes to surround themselves with teenagers. It was clear that this couple liked to seek out vulnerable teenagers in order to groom them for sex. What they did is appalling, especially with filming it, considering Alice had been “babysitting” for them since she was at least 14 years old. I also think there is something else weird going on with the brother, that a lot of other people have also picked up on. He was covered in scratches and bruises after Alice’s death. He liked to secretly film his sister. Also, editing the photos to make it seem like his sister was haunting the family comes off as especially psychopathic. The alarming behavior seems to be glossed over by the parents, which only reinforced the idea of emotional neglect.
The amount of red flags this gives is so numerous i can't even be bothered to explain to you how bad this take is, get help please @@iamme25yago
@@iamme25yago The neighbours did not break the law. Age of consent in Australia (and UK) is 16.
She was 15.@@WildMorgan
This reminds me of The Lovely Bones in a sense…..it made me think Alice being there the whole time knowing she can’t be seen and knowing the truth of her death but can’t tell her family. She also has to watch them grieve
That is a PERFECT COMPARISON. By this review alone im hetting lovely bones vibes
Another aspect of the Simulacrum examined in Lake Mungo is the idea that perhaps the waterlogged spirit girl REPLACED Alice, hence why her treasured belongings were hidden. You can imagine her in this infinite loop of being trapped, going mad, and replacing herself in the past, repeating the cycle.
Yo this theory is crazy 😮 please elaborate more on it
God that’s insane as a theory. So sad and scary to think about.
Wait. What
There's a scene where they include footage taken of Alice by Matt that is exactly how the dad described his encounter with her ghost! In the footage, Matt is sitting in the corner of the room while Alice is at her desk, seems not to notice him there, then he zooms in the camera and makes a small sound she turns and stares at him before rushing over to him saying to get out.
Wow 😯
Probably the only horror movie that I find actually "scary". There's something just really haunting about the being haunted by a specter of your own death and just the way it slowly creeps at the camera makes my skin crawl. It gives just enough to understand what's happening but ambiguous enough that it leaves you mind to wander the true horrors within.
The image of her doppelganger doesn't really look like it's moving. It's like looking down into a dark body of water and seeing something float up towards the surface from the depths.
shit the fycj up tihs was so bad
@@jeffjones7108 thats how i felt. Like she was in water
Watch Hell House LLC. Truly scary.
@@jeffjones7108I'm a bit jealous almost seeing how much people enjoyed this one lol, i thought it was a really good movie but tbh I didn't find it very scary at all they undercut most of the horror with "but is it really" twists after every scary scene it feels like which made a good story but personally I jusy never felt more than creeped out
I think for me, the best parts of the movie were how they convincingly portrayed grief. At one point I was so immersed in this family's story that I was almost convinced that they were real. Apparently they purposely picked out unknown actors to increase the believability.
And to decrease expenses lol
That's the part the stops me having repeated viewings. The portrayal of grief was too accurate.
I noticed that this movie has similar story beats and concepts as The haunting of Hill house (especially episodes 5 and 6). The way an important character is revealed to have been haunted by their own death premonition and don't feel seen by their families both while they are living and when they are dead. It's not surprising to hear that Lake Mungo is one of Mike Flanagan's favorite movies, you can really see the influence.
Same towards the end I was doing the DiCaprio pointing meme while shouting bending neck lady
Loved how quietly creepy this movie was. That's scene towards the end where she's walking, filming in the dark desert. So creepy. And actually quite sad by the end.
I discovered this via Ryan Hollinger's channel and I was so moved by his video that I bought the movie on RUclips. As someone who struggled for a long time after losing my father, the bleak depiction of the family after Alice's unexpected death just "hit different" from other movies surrounding grief. Thanks for covering Lake Mungo as it is one of my favorite horrors of all time now.
I'm sorry for your loss, I wish you peace, happiness and cake. 🍰🎂
I was wondering why this movie sounded familiar, you're right Ryan Hollinger covered it. I feel like both this video and his have really covered this movie in depth. Such a great film.
Hope you're better now
If u like grieving horror movies hereditary is a great watch
Who cares
I think that scene where Alice’s dad sees her yelling at him to ‘get out’ was just what alice wanted to show her father that her brother was stalking her without her notice and she shouted to him as well to get out. Just as the video the brother shot of her while she was unaware.
This film is a masterpiece
I believe that is about sxual abuse undertones.. That's what the movie is really about.
You're delusional
A lot of people call this movie boring but it seriously has some of the most spine chilling scenes I've seen in a horror movie
@callmecatalyst ok boomer
idk how anyone found this movie boring, i have adhd and struggle to watch anything without also using my phone or switch and most of the movie i couldnt take my eyes off the screen as i was on the edge of my seat the whole time
@@zoiemarks as someone with adhd who struggles the same way with watching things, this comment has convinced me to watch this movie
I did have some friends that thought the movie was dumb at first but then came to me later saying they just couldn't stop thinking about it 😁
People who call things like this boring tend to have a very silent mind. Meaning they don't actively think about things and just accept whatever visual/auditory stimuli is present
i like the brother theory.
-alice tells ray that when she goes stand at the foot of her parents bed that she fells like she was drugged. (i don’t know, it felt weird to me)
-if you pay attention to the home videos of alice, you can see exactly what the dad described he saw. but through matt’s camera.
-actually, all home videos show how uncomfortable alice looks being filmes by her brother and he seems to always fixate the camera on her.
-and why on earth would he create images of his dead sister?
-THE BRUISES!!!! LIKE, COME ON!!!
I dont get the bruises part. What, did he rape and drown her? If so, why would he see a doctor about the bruises? Wouldnt it be better to just wear a sweater until the bruises went away
@@ok0_0 I think that the parents noticed the bruises which promoted a doctors visit, thus leading to his whole ‘ghost Alice’ skit.
What’s the conclusion?
now i have to watch it again!!!
@@FrancLusaite I think it's evident that Alice felt isolated both in life and in death. The brother had an obsession with her and was the last to see her alive. There's also family history of neglect, possibly abuse as far back as the grandparents. Also, everything leading up to and surrounding Alice's death either confirms or foreshadows her relationship with each member of the family: The dad leaves the lights on and mirrors uncovered for her to return (and ultimately become trapped in the house); the visions/dreams that both the dad and the mom have are events that already took place or will take place; the neighbors probably took advantage of how vulnerable Alice was and pressured her into having sex with them. The conclusion is that every member of the family can't be trusted to be open and honest with each other, and everyone is living a fake life
Now I've never seen this movie or heard of it til now, and after seeing this, I like the mindfuck concept of making the viewer wonder if there's something supernatural involved or not. And there's something about the bad camera quality that makes this even creepier than it should be.
Please watch this despite having watched this video. Creepy creepy creepy af.
Yeah let this video drift from your memory a bit and then watch the movie with some friends and don't spoil anything for them, you'll have the best time 🤙
go away
I was scared all throughout this movie and that final scene almost killed me
Yes
Love this movie! Here’s a popular fan theory (my personal head canon):
Mathew actually drowned Alice. It’s shown throughout how he has a strange sort of obsession with her, constantly filming her, stalking her at one point iirc. This would also explain how he got the bruises that mysteriously showed up on him, that they never really rationalized. Also, the mother talks about the strange things he does, and not understanding why he does them (faking the ghost footage of Alice). She even says he doesn’t understand why he does certain things, or even his own motivations for his actions sometimes.
This would change the ending to be Alice actually trying to tell her family what had happened to her. And when she haunted herself, possibly trying to warn herself. To me it seems very likely, and it ties all the seemingly random scenes together.
So would the whole thing with the neighbors be a red herring or did Matthew kill her because he found out she was assaulted? Because I was under the impression that the neighbor killed her to keep her quiet.
@@mv9653 I wouldn’t call it a herring. The neighbors didn’t seem to want her dead. And they only went looking for the tape after she died. If they were planning on killing her, it would probably be alone when they met up, not at a family outing.
If they did, it would still leave a lot of unexplained weirdness surrounding Mathew, once again the bruises. This theory is the only one that ties everything together afaik.
So many people have missed this : she tells Ray what's happened, she's been drugged and assaukted by her brother, and then her body is 'changing'. She wants to tell her parents, but can't. Her obsessive brother who wears her clothes and films her all the time, kills her to stop anyone finding out. It was so subtle almost everyone missed it, but it's spelled out clearly in the film.
@@carlwide6594 nope
@@carlwide6594 this part.
This movie gave me big Twin Peaks vibes. There's the obvious reference of the family's last name being 'Palmer' and Alice being found dead in a body of water. But Alice shares a lot of parallels with Laura Palmer; both are teenage girls who are profoundly lonely and living secret lives, both had secret diaries holding clues to their demise, both were taken advantage of by adult employers, both of them knew their deaths were imminent due to supernatural visions, and their deaths drive the entire narrative.
yes!!!’ i was thinking of this the whole time i watched lake mungo. i love twin peaks, and i love this movie
I got to see this premiere at the After Dark festival back in 2007 or 2008, I don't remember which year. What I do remember is how much it freaked people out. Literally everyone was talking about this movie. It was by far the best movie of the festival.
I found it as an ex-rental at a tiny blockbuster. It was still in the higher price range of an ex-new release. It must've been very shortly after its release. I knew nothing about it except the blurb at the back which didn't seem promising, but the place was about to shut so I grabbed it. I watched it back to back 3 times that night then slept with the lights on for a week. And it took me years before I could find anyone talking about it. I couldn't understand how something so scary was so completely anonymous. The thought was starting to play on my mind that maybe the movie didn't actually exist except to me.
I have literally never heard of this movie but omg I’m glad I never watched it when I was younger, it definitely would’ve stuck with me
I have seen Slenderman: No Way Home.
@Slender man😈 hmmm I don’t recall ;)
I would sleep with my TV on the movie channel when I was younger. I'd wake up to all kinds of movies. When I was around 12, this was one of them. I never forgot it. It scared me. Still does.
This movie always turns my stomach and I mean that as a compliment to the filmmakers. It's uncomfortable and depressing and disturbing -- almost unwatchably so. Definitely the most effective horror film I've ever seen, even though I don't think I'll ever be able to sit through it again, haha.
I fvckin love this movie. The ending where we see her ghost WAS actually hidden in the background spooked me out but was also kind of heartwarming too.
This has been a favorite of mine since it first came out. It's not only supernatural but it's also disturbing in the secrets they uncover and the ways they all are dealing with their grief. Awesome analysis and explaining of the film!
@Slender man😈 I live in the same city the "Slenderman" stabbing happened. So yes, I'm aware of the fictional creepypasta character of "Slenderman". He's my neighbor in the forest. We barbecue when it's nice out
@Slender man😈 90 minutes of my life I will never get back...
Would love to see you do an Ending Explained for the old British tv movie, "Ghostwatch." They filmed it using news anchors portraying themselves, and aired it on Halloween, pretending it was just a live news special, where an anchor spends the evening with her crew and a family living in a haunted flat, while in studio they interview experts and have "live" viewers call in.
A number of the viewers didn't realize it was a movie, thought they were seeing genuine supernatural events, and it caused enough havoc that they were forbidden from rebroadcasting it for around 30 years.
That sounds like that one radio broadcast which convinced people aliens were legitimately invading.
@@Theendman42 war of the worlds. They did say it was fiction at the beginning but if you tuned in later you wouldn’t have known. I kinda feel bad for those who thought it was real, imagine genuinely thinking aliens are invading
@@KingOfGaymes similarly, Ghost Watch had a disclaimer. It played briefly at the beginning, but most people missed it. There was a line for viewers to call in and it also had a recorded message stating that the whole thing was fake, but there were so many calls that the system crashed so most callers never heard the message.
Fuckin pipes, terrified me as a kid. Still does tbh
@@calredman9210 Especially when you go back and realize Pipes was there the whole time...
My favorite horror of all time. I’m never scared but the cellphone footage genuinely disturbed me
I think it's also heavily implied near the end that Alice's premonition of her mother leaving her in the future deepened her feelings of hopelessness, possibly leading to her demise. All these events are connected through time in a nonlinear fashion, making it difficult to find a single starting point.
Watched this movie years ago and it's still the scariest movie I've ever seen! It's so good!
Very eerie. I used to have a dream of my brother who passed away. I would be in the house were we grew up and I would be standing in the kitchen. I could see my brother standing outside outside on the porch through the the sliding glass door. These dreams were always so realistic and in them I could see him but he could not see me. Almost like I was the ghost. I had this dream a few times and in the dream I would feel like if he saw me, he would become aware of me and I would wake up so I always tried to stay still and just watch. One time he did make eye contact with me and I felt this large amount of pressure in my head that was increasingly painful and my vision started to sink inward towards blackness. Almost like I was getting sucked into a black hole. At first I started to move towards him, thinking that I may be able to talk with him if i got closer. The closer I tried to get though, the more pressure and darkness increased. I finally relented and pulled away and immediately woke up. This was the most vivid and realistic set of waking dreams I've ever had and after the last episode I stopped having them. Sometimes I think about if they were just dreams and a way for me to cope or maybe there was something spiritual going on. What would happen if i proceeded forward? Would I have ever woken up?
You have described this in a way that could be a scene in a movie ….
@@hoooyea163 Ive told this story quite a few times🙂 The scenes in lake mungo, about the dreaming and therapy were the closest ive seen a movie get to what i experienced. Makes me think that someone attached to the production had a similar experience. Just maybe.
@@melissac3984 damn that's creepy
you were dying
My cat is called Mungo. She's a floppy kitten.
Ghost cat
Watched the movie multiple times already, and the very sight of the bloated body still makes my skin crawl
Especially the fact thats how drowned bodies look. Imagine seeing a body like that walking towards you
I've watched "Lake Mungo" a few times over the years, and even though I know the ending, I still watch. It is that good. I just finished "Hellbender" playing on Shudder, and what a terrific story. I'd like to recommend that movie. Great show today, as always!
I’ve never watched a movie that made me so uncomfortable than this one. The atmosphere of it, Even though it’s a mocumentary is unexplainable. The grief and the anxiety from it that the family felt in it is very familiar to me I think that’s why it works. But the scenes where everything unravels is absolutely terrifying. And those who watched the movie know what I’m talking about. There are 2 scenes specifically and then the post credits scene at the very end where the screen flashes that just make my hair stand up and get the chills. One of then best ghost movies I’ve ever seen.
Wouldn't say I was horrified but it truly was unique and depressing.
yeah, i honestly didn't think it was scary at all, but it was a really unique concept. maybe i need to watch it again cuz i feel like im missing something that makes this movie "scary"
@@marzkellyeah, “unsettling” is more the word
That final scene haunted me for a freakn week
This is the only horror film that has scared me as an adult, the sheer dread the ending instills is spectacular
I love this movie so much. There’s also a really great book that’s kind of inspired by Lake Mungo called Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay.
Oh maaaaan i totally forgot about that book. So creepy
@@18thTryKyle Soooo creepy. The ending still haunts me. I actually went into it not knowing it was inspired by Lake Mungo, so I didn't really know what to expect, which I think made it even creepier for me. As I was reading I kept thinking it felt familiar but it wasn't until the very end and the author's note that I really realized how inspired by Lake Mungo it was.
The book title in turn reminds me of the classic Picnic at Hanging Rock haha.
This is one of my all time favorite scariest movies of all time! It’s one of the few movies that genuinely scared me to my core, from the story to the family dynamics. It felt so real and yet like a fevered dream that turned into a nightmare.
This is one of the scariest and saddest horror movie I ever saw. The music while the camera was panning to every room in the house was terrifying.
I am unsure if I would consider it one of THE scariest of all time, but it definitely is such a solid movie. I went into it blind, and loved it more and more as the film continued
Me too! I just heard it recommended and searched for it for viewing without even reading the synopsis. And i was so creeped out by the end.
@@Mymuseandi It definitely gets creepy, and manages to keep a solid level of creepiness throughout. Might actually rewatch this now.
This is genuinely the most unsettling and scary movie I've ever seen
@Slender man😈 go away slendy you’re not cool anymore
@Slender man😈 the slender man film was so bad omg ☠️
Lake mungo wasn’t rly a horror movie for me, it felt like more of a tragedy watching the family come to terms with their loss and their grief. It was so heartbreaking with like the little spice of ghosts
You always leave me wanting more. I check your channel to see if I missed another video every time. As a horror buff since birth I can really get behind your passion, and feel it myself.
I still remember how hard that jumpscare hit me when I watched the movie for the first time some years ago. It came out of nowhere. Excellent horror movie
This is by far the best found footage film. So amazing. Edit: I should probably mention I had to turn the lights on after finishing it the first time.
Great video! Just wanted to say thanks for making these--it's really given me the chance to hear a lot of stories I wouldn't have heard otherwise! And when your summary is intriguing enough, I go and actually watch the movie, able to enjoy it since knowing what happens makes me a liiiiittle less fear-crippled. Big thanks! Your channel has given me such a better capacity for appreciating horror!
I found this on cable TV a loooong time ago and rewatched it a few years back. Amazing film and really stuck with me. Craziest part was that she was ACTUALLY in the photos, just not where the brother put her fakes
If we didn't learn how internet works, my dad and I actually thought this was a true story. Took us a couple of years to feel relief.
This is genuinely the scariest, most disturbing film I’ve ever scene.
Watch “A Serbian filme”, u will change ur mind about the most disturbing movie u ever seen.
@@joaqmigueloliveira That movie is an awful watch, but not worth anyone’s time. It’s one shocking, repulsive scene after another for the sake of being edgy.
Lake Mungo doesn’t rely on constant horrible imagery because it doesn’t have to.
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DONT watch that film @sumared. ESP if you have children. It’s not scary it’s just Fd up. Only a pedo would make such a disgusting film. Never seen it but the review was enough. Bleh 🤮
I really love this movie. It took me a while to get around to actually watching it, but when I finally did it was much better than I assumed it would be. I have a hard time classifying it- I know that technically it’s in the horror movie section, but I didn’t find it scary at all. I guess the best way I can describe it is haunting- it stayed with me for a long while after watching it, and I mostly just felt that it was really sad. That said, I put it high up in my favorite movies list. It’s not one that I watch a lot like I do with other favorites, as it just doesn’t seem like that kind of movie. I’ve only watched it twice, but I think it was very effective and well done, and I will watch it again someday- probably trying to get someone else to watch it. (And I know the exact feeling you described, when you said you were pissed at first on learning that Matt faked the evidence.)
Great video- I really appreciate how much you go in depth with your reviews and explanations. Thanks!
The most devastating is alice was actually abused by the couple and she stole the tape. So they killed him (but no proof of that). but they all got it wrong and her character was maligned by thinking she had a sexual relationship with them and she wanted justice..thats my sum up
Always love your deep dives, man. I've had so many false starts with my channel, and it's inspiring to see you doing it so well. Great content, man!
One thing I want to point out, which I think you missed, is that right after when we see Matt accompanying Ray on his tour, there are old video footages of Alice taken most probably by Russell, where we get to see Russell sitting in front of Alice's closet which also happens in the supernatural experience Russell gets as he finds himself sitting in front of Alice's closet without knowing why, as well as in another footage Alice suddenly realizes Russell is in her room filming her and she walks up to him angrily and tells him to "get out" which is another similar event that happens during Russell's supernatural experience.
It was the brother, Matt, who was filming but I noticed that it was identical to the dad's encounter almost immediately !
@@kidxkennabis watching lake mungo feels like watching haunting hills. But more about grief and lost than insanity and drive of launching forward to your demise instead of coming to terms with it
Prove that God doesn't exist.
Wow
One of my all time favourite movies and as an Australian makes me proud...... how eerie is this movie ? Like unsettling the whole time
Yeah. This movie absolutely deserves the title of one of the best horror movies of all time.
It has, quite frankly, the scariest scene I’ve ever seen in a horror movie to date, capturing both a terrifying concept, and executing that concept perfectly. The doppelgänger that looks like a bloated corpse walking at the camera in the dark affects me on so many levels from psychological to uncanny and otherwise downright terrifying.
And not to mention very sad too!
Bro it's not THAT good lol come on now
This is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time. So happy you covered it!!
This is one of the few movies I can name where I feel like i'm punched in the face every time a new twist is thrown in, and it actually works. I remember I was left in awe watching this years ago and now that I forgot a few of the turns, it was even better when the reveals just kept coming. Very few movies stick w me for a while after watching but this one takes a piece of your cinematic soul w it for a while. It. Is. Brilliant. ❤
Well, I've been binge watching FoundFlix all day so it makes sense I'd get here in under 5 minutes.
Lake mungo is such an under rated gem ... And so well conceptualised, written, and executed. The believability of the family (acting)!
More fun info on simulacra! Jean Baudrillard, french philosopher, wrote "Simulacra and Simulation," a GREAT short book, which is loosely what The Matrix was based on thematically. It's also the book Neo keeps stuff in in his apartment. The Matrix and Lake Mungo are the only two movies I know of that deal directly with simulacra. Anyways, as always, awesome video!
It's important to note that apparently baudrillard hated the matrix because he felt the directors did not actually understand what simulation was.
Lake Mungo has got to be one of the most realistic fake documentaries, the actors did an incredible job. I just watched it a few days ago on shudder and I loved it. 100% worth a watch
I just finished watching the movie as I always do with every video foundflix does on a movie that I haven’t seen and this is the only movie that has brought me to tears because of how unsettling it was. i’ve known about this movie for years and haven’t seen it until now, i’m genuinely shook and I love it definitely 10 out of 10
Its underrated to the point it aint widely known or popular but it is when it comes to found footage community
Years ago, when I watched this for the 1st time, it was 1 of the very few horror films to ever genuinely _scare_ me since _The Exorcist._ I can't pin-point what it is *specifically* that gives a film that uneasy, emptiness...(?) in the pit of your stomach - like when you sense something is wrong, &/or you start to feel like you're in some kind of danger in an IRL scenario is the only thing I can relate it to, but it's a rare thing to feel that from any kind of media... This 1 will _haunt_ you long after the credits have rolled.
I was wondering why you never explored this 1 before, so I'm happy to get this notification!✌🏻💀
At the same age and same year as Alice (2008), I had a near death experience. Lake Mungo was like a surreal view into terrifying alternate reality where I had actually died and my parents and younger brother were left to deal with the aftermath. Quite the mindfuck, on top of a mindfucking movie
Great recap, excellent video!
really! i wanna know the whole story
that's insane
Jesus Christ you have ovaries of steel for watching this movie in that case
I wait religiously for a new upload. Love Foundflix I binge watched every video the day I found his channel lol.
i watched the film thinking it was a documentary. maybe the scariest "in the moment" films i've ever seen. thanks for covering it!
Ah, man I've been waiting for you to cover this one for a long ass time! Watched it almost two years ago and it's starting to become one of my favorites! That video footage at Lake Mungo stuck with me months after I viewed it...
glad you finally decided to do this. this in my opinion is one of the best creepiest movie out there. loved it
Am absolute masterpiece, and so unbelievably well constructed that 99% of people miss the most horrifying part of the film.
Alice was murdered by someone very close to her, all the clues ate there throughout and it's spelled out just exactly what she was going through and the consequences, and the reason she couldn't tell her parents. So awful and so perfectly created, almost everyone, it seems, has missed it.
If she was murdered the autopsy would have revealed that
I've been obsessed with this movie for years, it's horrifying.
These are the best breakdowns on RUclips! Surprised I've never seen this one! Always entertaining bro!
I'm surprised it took you this long to do Lake Mungo!! I love this movie.
This is one of the very few movies that actually terrified me for a very long time, i watched it 11 years ago and i still have nightmares about it till this day. It's just something about it that is so haunting.
I've been wanting an ending explained of this movie for a long time now!! ❤️❤️❤️
Finally you made a video analysis on this not that commercial jewel. Thank you man!
Been waiting for you to cover this film, so excited! ❤️
I got about 1 minute into the video then decided to pause it and watch it for myself first.
Super glad I did, this was actually eerie.
Since I only watched this a few minutes ago the plot really reminded me of Nell and her "bent neck lady" from The Haunting of Hill House.
I've been requesting this bad boy for so long. Of course my boy foundflix slides through.
Thank you for exposing more viewers to this film, such a great movie. Needs more love
I only just recently watched this for the first time and the thing that really stuck out for me was the quality of the acting in it. The characters felt very real and the documentary style only served to further that. Great work, really.
We watched this film many years ago, curious about such a well rated Australian "horror" movie. Every country, every culture and lore takes horror and makes something different. The film struck me as a tragedy, and the ending was so sad--a spirit trying to make itself known to the people it loved, and their grief, and the actions they take because of their grief, keep them from ever establishing contact. The final image of leaving their beloved alone in the house, seemingly doomed to an eternity of lonely isolation--watching, but never able to communicate, seemed so bleak.
We've never felt the desire to watch the film again, although we own a copy of it. Unlike our horror favorites, I don't see this as a film that your interpretation would evolve with further viewings--it tells it's story very well, but doesn't really have anything further to reveal. As Canadians, living in a tiny city surrounded by family and friends, we have been exposed to death, and dead bodies, so these things are not frightening--and when "Lake Mungo" establishes that a spirit is indeed present--the film ends, and the characters continue with their lives. It might be interesting to follow up with a film about the next family in the house--what they experience, and if they could persuade the original family to re-open the wounds of the first film, and come back to release the spirit of their daughter/sister.
I always remember this move as not actually conventionally scary, but the idea of what was happening afterwards haunted me for a few days unlike any of other horror movie
Thank you. I would have never found out about this movie without you. I’m definitely watching
Man, watched this movie years back. Truly one of the most underrated horror movies ever.
Yes a clan is haunted by the spirit of Alice. I remember when I was a kid I watch this animation / live action movie called Dot and the Kangaroo. And it had a song about a supernatural creature in Aboriginal folklore called the Bunyip.
those zooms are so simple, yet so terrifying
Omg I look this movie up all the time reading the plot but never watch it and I’m so glad you did a video!!! Thank you
I absolutely LOVE your channel. Thank you for your work!
I'm so glad he did this one! I loved this one so much. So sad! Thanks FoundFlix
I love Lake Mungo so much! Thanks for covering it! My vote for a future ending explained (and my pick for scariest movie ever) is "The Entity."
Love this movie! Been wanting you to cover it for a while.
Whoo! Love being early almost as much as I love your vids! (I literally wait for them, they're my favorite)