Mike Flanagan’s Favorite Scary Movie Is Getting a 4K Restoration

Los Angeles’ genre-focused Beyond Fest announced its programming today, and tucked amid each the rad-sounding premieres and revivals was a rubric that’s been connected our minds lately acknowledgment to Mike Flanagan: 2008 Australian fearfulness mockumentary Lake Mungo. It cannot beryllium coincidental that specified days aft the fearfulness manager name-checked Lake Mungo arsenic a movie that “chilled maine to the bone,” Beyond Fest revealed he’d beryllium doing a peculiar instauration for the festival’s planetary premiere of its 4K restoration, but we’re OK with it: Lake Mungo is good worthy of its recently elevated profile.

It is benignant of a funny prime for a 4K restoration. If you’ve seen Joel Anderson’s movie—the haunting communicative of a household struggling to judge the decease of a beloved teen daughter—you cognize its mysteries are precise overmuch intertwined with the mid-2000s exertion of its era, particularly the grainy capabilities of compartment telephone cameras. The movie is besides an exploration of tone photography and the mode images tin beryllium interpreted by radical who’re hopeless to find peculiar meaning successful them; presumably, though, the 4K attraction won’t marque Lake Mungo‘s deliberately ambiguous recovered footage moments immoderate little creepy. It mightiness adjacent marque radical little apt to rewind the inevitable location mentation to double-check what they think they might’ve conscionable seen.

Flanagan volition besides beryllium connected manus astatine Beyond Fest to debut the “Shush Cut” of his 2016 cult slasher Hush, which stars and was co-written by his predominant collaborator and spouse Kate Siegel. It’s a peculiar black-and-white mentation with a caller audio premix that volition beryllium included connected the film’s upcoming Blu-ray/UHD Collector’s Edition, coming soon from Shout Factory. (In different words, Beyond Fest mightiness beryllium your lone accidental to spot this mentation connected the large screen.)

You tin cheque retired the afloat line-up of Beyond Fest programming, which is stacked with premieres arsenic good arsenic a boatload of “jeez, I privation I lived successful Los Angeles”-type peculiar events, astatine its authoritative site; (ticket info here) it runs September 25-October 9. We’re peculiarly envious of that 50th day screening of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with “12 members of the archetypal formed and unit successful attendance,” according to the festival property release. As a bonus, it’s paired with a screening of Chain Reactions, the latest cinematic deep-dive from documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe, whose erstwhile works see Lynch/Oz, Memory: The Origins of Alien, 78/52 (about Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, specifically the ablution scene), and the zombie-tastic Doc of the Dead.

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