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Best Horror Movies: Mike Flanagan on Why the ‘Criminally Underseen’ Found Footage Horror Film ‘Lake Mungo’ Leaves Him ‘Utterly Shattered’
Director Mike Flanagan praises Joel Anderson's 'Lake Mungo' for its quiet horror and profound truths about grief.
When I find myself talking to someone familiar with Joel Anderson’s 2008 film (which isn’t often; it remains criminally underseen), our eyes usually go wide, our pitches rise and soon we’re giddily gesturing and speaking in half-thoughts like two people who share a great secret. It’s a humble film on the surface, a faux documentary chronicling a grieving family who may or may not be experiencing a haunting after the accidental death of their teenage daughter, Alice. It forgoes scares and startles for an ephemeral, inexplicable sense of dread that immediately seeps into the viewer, and I feel it just as acutely today — 20 viewings later — as I did the first time I wandered into Anderson’s deceptive labyrinth of tension, grief and horror.
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