Here we have something interesting. A horror “mockumentary” that’s done so realistically I was unconvinced as to whether it was fake or not for much of the runtime. It’s totally fiction, but boy does it look like a real documentary. It’s effectively creepy; but then, as things get debunked, reveals them straightforwardly, as a real documentary wood. The performances are 100% realistic.

The story is, an Australian family’s daughter drowns, and they believe they are beginning to see her ghost around the house. A medium gets involved, it goes through the kind of complex twists and turns any interesting real life documentary involving a true crime might go through, and it once never gets far enough from believable to break the spell. It’s extremely sparing about creepy stuff so when it arrives, it’s effective. The photo & video “evidence” for the haunting is sufficiently understated to be legitimately spooky… not clear enough to look fake, not blurred enough to look deliberately obscured. And then, when some of it is questioned, the way it could have been produced deceptively is presented realistically, too.

Well done. Hard to call this a great movie, but it’s certainly very well done and succeeds entirely at being the horror mockumentary it’s trying to be. It really looks real, all the way through. Worth a watch if any of this sounds interesting.