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6.2/10 • 540

2009-07-301h 27m

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In 2008, Alice Palmer died… Her nightmare didn't.

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.

Directors
Joel Anderson
Writters
Joel Anderson
Editors
Joel Anderson, Bill Murphy

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Rosie Traynor

    Rosie Traynor

    June Palmer

  2. David Pledger

    David Pledger

    Russell Palmer

  3. Martin Sharpe

    Martin Sharpe

    Mathew Palmer

  4. Talia Zucker

    Talia Zucker

    Alice Palmer

  5. Tania Lentini

    Tania Lentini

    Georgie Ritter

  6. Cameron Strachan

    Cameron Strachan

    Leith Ritter

  7. Judith Roberts

    Judith Roberts

    Iris Long

  8. Robin Cuming

    Robin Cuming

    Garret Long

  9. Marcus Costello

    Marcus Costello

    Jason Whittle

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prabhushakti

Mar 6, 2018

4/10

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? I absolutely hated the poor direction of how the characters were told to talk about the tragedy! 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

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
australiadrowningsupernaturalparanormal phenomenahypnosismockumentarydeathghostfound footageséancecreepydocufictionsearch and rescuespirit photographyawestruckstrange events