29: Lake Mungo (2008)
A mockumentary about a family being haunted, perhaps literally, by the death of a young member.
Much discussed, with a retrospective documentary on the way, after the filmmaker came back with Late Night With The Devil.
(One of the talking heads in that is Mike Flanagan, who also talked about this last year, and I can see it might have inspired some of his The Haunting Of Hill House, especially one of the key episodes.)
I haven’t gotten around to this before but had heard it was terrifying and bleak and, well, it is bleak.
Very well done, if overreliant on squinting at the back of the frame and music stings when it zooms in. Which means apart from a couple of big moments it feels like a real ghost documentary with its inconclusive evidence.
I can appreciate it but I guess I’m not the audience for it.
The medium: Shudder
Gameability: A character seeing something like Alice sees could be the start of a dark adventure. And the examination of evidence feels like a handout-heavy game.
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