

Lake Mungo
If you've never seen a ghost... look closer.
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.
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6.1/10
751 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- australia
- drowning
- supernatural
- paranormal phenomena
- hypnosis
- death
- ghost
- found footage
- séance
- pov (point of view)
- creepy
- analog
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereAfter Dark Horrorfest29 Jan 2010
- PhysicalRDVD23 Mar 2010
United KingdomGB
- Physical15DVD25 Jul 2011
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMSydney Film Festival18 Jun 2008
- Theatrical (limited)M30 Jul 2009
- Premiere4k Restoration - Melbourne International Film Festival18 Aug 2024
ArgentinaAR
- PhysicalDVD11 Jan 2011
FranceFR
- Physical12DVD & Blu-ray6 Aug 2025
GermanyDE
- Physical16DVD5 Aug 2011
JapanJP
- PhysicalDVD26 Oct 2011
MexicoMX
- PhysicalCDVD23 Mar 2010
NetherlandsNL
- Premiere16Imagine Film Festival18 Apr 2009
PhilippinesPH
- PhysicalDVD23 Mar 2010
PortugalPT
- PremiereM/14MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival5 Sept 2009
SingaporeSG
- PhysicalDVD23 Mar 2010
Frequently asked questions
Lake Mungo was released on 30 July 2009.
Audience reviews
2- P4/10
prabhushakti
3/6/2018
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 …
- W4/10
Wuchak
11/6/2021
_**Docudrama concerning the possible ghost of an Australian girl**_ A 16 year-old girl disappears in the water in a rural area of Australia and family members & others claim they see apparitions of her while various secrets are slowly unveiled. “Lake Mungo” (2008) is a mystery Indie with a bit ’o horror, but in the style of a mockumentary, aka fake documentary. Like "Curse of the Blair Witch,” which was…
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