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Lake Mungo

90 Minutes or Less • 1h 27m

Directed by Joel Anderson • 2008 • Australia
Starring Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger

One of the finest of the faux-documentary horror films that proliferated in the 2000s, this profoundly unnerving exploration of loss, grief, and family secrets convincingly assumes the form of a television special centered on the Palmers, an Australian family whose world is turned upside down when their sixteen-year-old daughter Alice drowns while on a lake trip. But when Alice begins appearing in photographs and videos taken after the incident, it opens up disturbing questions about the mystery of both her life and death.

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