20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies Ever
2. Lake Mungo
[REC] might be the most intense found footage film of all time, but Lake Mungo is far and away the most emotionally engaging - a magnificent reminder that ghost stories are, at their core, fundamentally sad examinations of mortality and grief.
In this case, Joel Anderson's astonishing feature debut is a pseudo-documentary about a family coming to terms with the drowning death of their daughter, Alice (Talia Zucker), all while their home appears to be haunted by her supernatural presence.
Lake Mungo works so well because it's so incredibly convincing as an actual documentary; the technical presentation and performances never feel phony or performative, ensuring the creepier moments consequently hit harder.
Much continues to be made of the movie's shudder-inducing climax, which indeed delivers one of the most unnerving and indelible images from any horror film ever, even if Lake Mungo is as much a character-driven drama about the pain of moving on.
Despite Lake Mungo's enduring popularity in horror circles almost 20 years after release, it bafflingly remains Anderson's only feature film to date.