What an interesting movie. One thing I really like about this movie is that it doesn't rely on gore or special effects to get the creep factor across. It was really effective in that it used grainy footage and zoomed in to see the subliminal attributes that would be easily overlooked if one wasn't looking for initially. I'm, of course, talking about all the scenes where we see Alice in the background after her death. Just going over parts of the movie...it is documentary style where we get to see interviews of various members of Alice's family after her death. Her and her brother were swimming in a local lake but then she was nowhere to be seen. Then things get a little confusing because the brother starts doing a photography project where we think we see Alice's ghost in the mirror and other places, BUT, we find out later that he superimposed those shots and they were edited to make it look like Alice's ghost was there. After that admission, we see that other weird things were in the background of these videos and photos. The weirdest one is that the next-door neighbor was seen in a shot entering the house. I was not expecting the neighbor lore and it def added an additional creep factor to the movie. Apparently, Alice was involved (underaged) with the neighbor and his wife. To put this into context, she was the babysitter for their kids (yikes). The reason he was in the house was to retrieve a sex tape that was made with Alice, him, and his wife. Very suspicious...then fast forward to Alice's trip to Lake Mungo where she is encountered by someone who looks like a very bloated, water-submerged version of herself. The movie alludes to Lake Mungo being a portal of different time/dimensions so my interpretation is that the future version of herself came back to appear as soft of an omen. It's like Alice's ghost stayed around the family home as a lost soul? Was her soul captured in the vortex of Lake Mungo? Unless I missed something very obvious in the ending, I think we are left as an audience to interpret the last events how we wish. This is one of the few Australian horror movies that I can think of off the top of my head and it might be one of their (or actually most) popular horror flick! I feel like if you were a 90s kid who was scared to death of those YouTube videos where they showed subliminal images, you would really enjoy this movie.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 5 out of 5 stars (only 22 reviews though!)
My rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (those zoom-ins are pretttttty creepy, but it is def a slow movie)
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