AFFF log

Non-campy Twin Peaks
Links: AFFF / imdb

This film made sense until about an hour into the film. Carefully disguised as a documentary, Lake Mungo tried its best not to go down the familiar road of creepy ghost apparition films. Unfortunately this was not the direction the film was headed, and so we ended up with a ghost film after all. A pity, because this could have been a good film if they had stuck with the observatory non-shocking style of the first sixty minutes.

In my opinion this film should have focused on the real life aspects and not the ghostly ones. By this I mean that to me the strongest emotional theme that should have had center stage was how a family deals with the death of a (young) family member, how they cope and how they try to make sense of it. Part of the ghost story could then still have been intact, but it would have served as an illustration of denial, of finding and giving meaning. It would have shown human behaviour in these difficult circumstances instead of the "this is the supernatural story that really happened".

Rating: 6