Lake Mungo: The Mockumentary That Grieves

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Most horror wants to make you jump. Lake Mungo wants to make you sit very still and ache. Joel Anderson’s 2008 Australian film is dressed as a television documentary — talking heads, archival home video, a sober narration of dates and places — about a family whose sixteen-year-old daughter drowned. It is, on its surface, a paranormal investigation. Underneath, it is one of the most exact studies of grief the genre has produced, and it earns its scares by refusing to treat them as the point.

Ten Found-Footage Films That Actually Work

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Found footage has the worst reputation of any horror form, and most of it is earned. The gimmick is cheap, so the field is flooded with films that mistake a wobbling camera for tension and a dropped torch for a scare. When it works, though, it does something no other kind of horror can: it removes the safety rail of the polished frame and tells you that what you are watching was recovered rather than composed. The whole form is a magic trick built on a single lie — this really happened, and someone kept filming — and the good ones commit to that lie with a discipline the imitators never manage.

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Lake Mungo: The Mockumentary That Grieves

Ten Found-Footage Films That Actually Work