Australian supernatural horror flick “Lake Mungo” is done with a mockumentary style with a lot of found-footage parts to it. I’m not a fan of the found-footage style at all but my biggest complaint with this film is that it feels like a complete rip-off of “Twin Peaks”.

The Palmer family recounts the tragedy of the disappearance and death of their daughter, Alice (Talia Zucker), as well as the mysterious and potentially supernatural experiences they subsequently encountered. The secrets of Alice’s life will be uncovered. The family will be drawn to Lake Mungo where they may find something more horrifying than they were prepared for.

The family in this film just doesn’t seem believable. For all the horrifying and messed up things that they go through, they seem rather calm recounting everything. You would think they would be in an insane asylum at this point. The Alice character just seems incredibly like Laura Palmer from “Twin Peaks”; the surnames are even the same. I wasn’t invested in her problems at all. There are supernatural visions that appear throughout the film but unfortunately, a lot of the footage we see has such poor quality that you could almost be looking at anything.

There are some creepy ideas in here and I think the way in which the film is presented as at least somewhat realistic. However, I just could not care less about stupid ghosts. They are not scary in the slightest. This is infinitely more watchable than other found-footage films such as “Paranormal Activity”. I think that’s because a lot of it is not done in the found-footage style. Therefore, we get breaks from all the issues associated with using the found-footage style. If you like ghost films then you may find this really scary and engaging but it just didn’t hold my attention.