ladymidath I found out about Lost Things from a friend of mine who works in a comic bookshop. From what I can understand, it only had a limited release. I managed to track down the DVD however. Four teens decide to go away for a weekend and they go to a secluded beach. Once there, strange things start to happen. Lost Things is a very low key, atmospheric and beautifully filmed movie. The setting is both lovely and frightening and a sense of eerie foreboding settles over the four teenagers. With the appearance of Zippo, it gets even creepier. Steve Le Marquand is excellent as Zippo and gives off a real air of menace. The four teenager are very good in their performance as well especially Lenka Kripac as Emily. This is Australian horror at it's best. Low key, believable acting, a strong storyline that grips you right from the start. This is a film that relies on good solid acting and writing rather than blood and violence. If you can find a copy, watch it. You won't be disappointed.

ThrownMuse A bunch of teens go out to an isolated beach for the weekend and find a bit more than the "good times!" they had planned. I was expecting this film, which was marketed as an Aussie teen slasher, to be bottom-of-the-barrel junk. Well, it wasn't a slasher and it was one of the better creepy films of the past few years. Taking its cue from 70s Aussie gems "Long Weekend" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock," (as well as several other low-budget American hits that will go unnamed here), this is a fresh and frightening little movie. It is well-acted (better than US teen horrors, anyway) and the middle half-hour of the film is actually quite frightening and doesn't skimp on the scares and eerie imagery. Unfortunately, the movie is a bit too ambitious for it's own good and leaves you thinking "huh?" in certain parts, but overall, I'd recommend this to anyone who likes psychological horror.

Claudio Carvalho The teenagers Gary (Leon Ford), Brad (Charlie Garber), Emily (Lenka Kripac) and Tracey (Alex Vaughan) travel in a Kombi to a desert paradisiacal beach and spend the weekend together, the boys expecting to surf and have sex with the girls. When they arrive, they meet the older Zippo (Steve Le Marquand), and they have the sensation of Déjà vu with weird events, feeling that they had previously been in that place. Along the Saturday, they see that they are actually trapped in a nightmare."Lost Things" is one of the best surprises I have recently seen on DVD. The refreshing and original story has a great screenplay, direction and performances, basically in one location, three actors and two actresses. I started seeing this low-budget movie not paying much attention and I really expected a stupid teenager slash-movie, with lots of gore and naked women. I was completely wrong, and I found an intriguing story, following the pattern of a David Lynch film, and showing an absolutely different view of the Limbo. I saw in IMDb that this is the first feature of the unknown director Martin Murphy, and I really expect to see his next works. Last but not the least, I would like to congratulate this director, the writer Stephen Sewell, the actors and actress for their excellent performances and the crew that made possible this engaging little gem. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Férias Selvagens" ("Wild Vacations")

lost-in-limbo Two guys and their girls head out for a surfing trip for the weekend along a lonely beach line. Things start getting very weird and nightmarish when they encounter a strange scruffy man living nearby and certain actions and surroundings seem quite familiar. It's like they have been through it all before.Every once in awhile you come across a film that's quite unique in its own way, compared to the norm. That's how I feel about "Lost Things", although it's not a film everyone would get into. Giving too much away in the plot outline can definitely spoil this flick, but certain people will know where this film is heading and pick up on the plentiful cryptic messages, the loop and major twist. But if that is the case for you, it's still able to keep it really intense and quite compelling. It does leave you hanging there. The first time I watched this haunting Australian Indie flick it just happened to be an accident. I didn't know what to make off it back then, but with my recent viewing it has kinda hit the mark. Still it had me thinking, "Well that was just bizarre!" This is one strangely fascinating, psychological journey of one coming to terms with extreme fear and death. What makes it quite mind-boggling is that it takes on an enigmatic, supernatural spin to its cerebral material. It's about who's watching whom within a certain space and time. Things seem to fall into place quite naturally, despite some irritate factors involving ragged editing, which gave the film a convoluted feel at times and confusing spots in the script. The largely spaced out and closed up feel that surrounds the film emerges from the beautiful, but extremely eerie backdrop and the otherworldly music score that's strongly effective in that unsettling and alienating manner. Trumping in were some jolting images, illusions and sounds effects that hit you from all sides. All of this action mostly occurs during daylight, but still manages to touch a nerve by trapping you in. During these weird going ons, there's the usual teen antics one would associate. None of it distracts, but gives it a sense of realism and a more then believable rapport between the characters. The young cast involving Leon Ford, Charlie Garber, Lenka Kripac and Alex Vaughan gave fair, but likable performances, though it was the punctuating performance of Steve Le Marquand as the very freaky Zippo that made real headway.Interesting, ambitious and spiralling film-making comes together in this little complex and uncanny fare. So do you know, who you are?