Little trace is left of this 2008 indie movie in its home country, despite it developing a cult following overseas for being truly terrifying
If you were told to go and watch the scariest movie ever, you might expect to be pointed toward an acknowledged classic like William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, or even an upstart contender like Ari Aster’s Hereditary. What you probably wouldn’t expect is a small-scale mournful tale about grief and loss in Victoria’s rural city of Ararat. And yet the 2008 Aussie indie Lake Mungo is the recipient of just such accolades, the centre of a micro viral content industry that has labelled it the scariest, saddest, most devastating, and best ghost film you’ve never seen.
If Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook has become a national treasure, Joel Anderson’s Lake Mungo is the major contemporary Australian horror film all but unrecognised in its home country.
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