KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

wildblueyonder I guess its just impossible to wrap my head around what people think is good or not good. I will often consult the IMDB rating of a movie before watching it, and I find that in the 5-7 range there is a lot of difference between what I like and what other people like. So in that range I often scan reviews.Can't for the life of me see what would appeal to anyone about this movie, how enough people could have even an above average take on it for it to rate that high.Its terrible. Its shot documentary style, its a bunch of interviews. I think you could realistically watch it and believe its not fiction - hence my rating of 2 and not 1. Other than that not even interesting. Avoid.

realtalkrealfolks I'm a huge horror fan. The first horror movie I saw was A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was thirteen years old, and since then, I was hooked. It's probably my favorite movie genre, and one of my favorite genres in all forms of entertainment. I feel like I've "seen it all", so to speak, in all the various sub-genres of horror. Mainstream, indie, sci-fi, psychological, monster, black and white classics, found footage, etc. You name it, I've probably seen it. But I've never seen anything quite like Lake Mungo.It's not really the style of the movie, per se, that was so different, because I've seen faux documentary style horror movies before. But the things that happen in this one...it's been a long time since a horror film made me feel this way.When I sat down to watch it, all I knew was the basic plot. A teenage girl drowns, and afterwards her family starts experiencing some strange events. I thought it was going to be your typical haunted house ghost story, but it was so much more than that. The movie sets up this fascinating mystery, with multiple twists and reveals, and it keeps you guessing the entire time. Eventually though, it all leads up to one scene in particular. Basically, the entire movie builds up to this moment, and what happens is so unexpected and horrifying, I couldn't believe it. There were no cheap jump scares here. No "aha! gotcha!" moments. The scene earned every second of the fear it made me feel. I had to force myself not to cover my eyes.This is one of the most tense, uneasy atmospheres I've experienced while watching any movie, not just horror. One of the best slows burns, with a great payoff. I was thinking about this for days after I watched it. Absolutely unforgettable.

prabhushakti This review contains spoilers. A documentary style film, as the director visualised in his mind, and a cheap belief of what it is based upon. I absolutely lost my patience while watching this movie, because I wanted to see a good movie and all it had is how it wanted to be, which I appreciate but unfortunately I hatred it because I was thinking why is it not in some informative channel's stupid shows than a movie? I thought about Häxan - 1922. A film, I love so much because not only it is entertaining but also very well shot and represented. I also thought about "it follows" which I believe is another great horror film in the history of cinema. While watching this Australian director's film, I could not see what else it has that there never have been before or is it important as long as the film is good at it. Does this movie show us anything we have never seen? What I hated the most is the blend of dialogues and music. The cheap creepy background music was so high, that you absolutely have to feel the poor suspense the director forces us to feel so desperately, but it was so painful and disgusting far from disturbing. I only felt bad about the privacy of the family involved in the film, if it is based upon the real story which I don't wish to research on. I will tell you my analysis about the first creepy photo of the dead body and last same living video of the creepy faced body: A saddist murdered or psychopath did the horrible things to her face, who had all her possessions, and before killing her, he/she recorded her sadism and buried it in the ground so nobody could find it. Maybe he has been giving her drugs and raping her, which caused her to go through anxiety or depression of death and all those nightmare. Maybe the sadist is not anymore than the Hungarian hypnotiser. Now irrational but dumb people would like it, and some cheap people would spend some bucks to turn it to the most horrible horror film. I want to explain here - a lot of people like the end creepy footage - I found it absolutely horrible because again the cheap creepy sound gave me a headache

TarkovskyFanGirl Not quite up to par with Noroi, Okaruto, or Blair Wtich Project, as far as found footage horror is concerned, but it's more tolerable than the majority of similar films that are flooding the market. While the story unravels, there might be some question as to whether or not the whole thing is a hoax or there is some degree of supernatural legitimacy. In some sense it seems almost pertinent to refer to the film as a mockumentary, because of the somewhat saccharine and glossy presence of the interview footage, in contrast to the much grainier, low-quality, and distorted footage, which is meant to be the "scary/creepy footage." Admittedly, despite often mediocre or even downright bad framing, some of the color footage is quite a rich film stock, but the quality meanders regularly. Probably the only interesting interaction among the many talking heads would be the mother's grief and how the son chooses to address it, but everyone else is kind of just there for the ride. The sexual subplot is dull and doesn't really provide much credibility to the development of the central character and the story. There are some questions left unanswered, but it's a fairly ordinary story of a troubled teen with some spooky supernatural elements. The cellphone footage and the decayed body are sufficiently eerie, and the movie often has a tense atmosphere (Unfortunately, it often doesn't last long because of the constant talking head footage), as the viewer waits for a possible jump scare or is forced to play Where's Waldo while looking for the ghost.As a side note: the most amusing element would probably be how the mother deals with the sadness of losing her daughter by taking long walks at night, when she can't sleep--and she abates the emptiness inside her by... walking into the houses of strangers...? So she says, but it's never addressed whether they simply leave the door unlocked or if she breaks in... what a creepy lady...