After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Direction
Joel Anderson's documentary realism is *too* convincing.
Cinematography
That phone footage sequence—frame by frame terror.
Director
Joel Anderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lake Mungo is a real Australian site where ancient Aboriginal remains were found—Anderson deliberately chose it for its layered history of death and discovery.
The film bombed on release but became a cult sleeper hit through TikTok recommendations in 2020, proving that some horrors find their audience decades later.
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