Set in a small Australian town reeling from the drowning of 16-year-old Alice Palmer, the film follows her grieving family as they confront strange occurrences that suggest Alice’s presence lingers—along with secrets she never shared in life.

Directed by Joel Anderson, Lake Mungo unfolds with quiet, surgical precision, transforming everyday media—photographs, cell phone clips, surveillance footage—into vehicles of grief and revelation. What emerges is not just a chilling portrait of the supernatural, but a deeply human story about the unknowability of those closest to us, the private fears we bury, and the ways loss reshapes a family.

A modern classic of found-footage horror, Lake Mungo lingers long after the credits roll—an atmospheric, emotionally shattering ghost story that’s as much about mourning as it is about the dead who refuse to stay silent.