Lake Mungo (2008)
6/10
A good "slow burn" horror movie
31 January 2019
I was very skeptical of this movie. When it started rolling I immediately got the impression that this is going to be a "cheap" found footage movie. But the movie started to grow on me. It got more interesting as the movie progressed and toward the end I was pretty delighted to have watched it in its entirety. It's a good and quite thoughtful horror movie. With all that being said it focuses more on the psychological aspects of grief. It's a story about how a family coped with the death of their daughter. I'm not going to spoil anything but the end got pretty scary. The only problem that I see with this is that most people probably didn't make it all the way to the end. They probably stopped somewhere along the line because the movie made a bad first impression. I mean, I almost did the same thing. That's why my rating is a little on the weak side. This movie is missing a "hook". It starts out way too slow and weak to the point where people get a little too suspicious before the movie has a chance to properly develop and make it up to you.

Final verdict: don't let the beginning fool you, it's a solid movie.
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