I agree with most of the things the other positive reviews say here, so I won't repeat them all. Primarily I thought the film had a good, strong mood and a VERY pensive atmosphere created quite effectively by good cinematography and excellent sound design. I mean, when a director can cause suspense and tension just by showing the tide swirling back over someone's feet, that IS indeed quite a feat! (yeah, yeah, I know... : )Seriously though, this is a PRIME example of how to make a very effective Horror film with clearly VERY little money and simply using technique and composition in putting the film together. The overall concept is actually quite simple and has indeed been done many, MANY times before. BUT... it is quite difficult to pull off a film like this (unless you happen to be David Lynch) To me personally, mood is all important and this one creates a powerful and mysterious one. I'm tempted to mention similar films like this one that were also made well, but I hesitate because I do not wish to spoil the story...Watching this, I really enjoyed the director's simple but effective style. It reminded me very much of Ti West's films. It takes real skill to build such a story with this kind of mood and tension with so little, which Ti West is quite rightly famous for doing. Sure, it could have been a bit more polished, but I'll trade a little roughness for the tangible, raw mood created here.Now, very importantly... And you can clearly tell this by the very polarized reviews here. This film will appeal primarily to ones who like vague and mysterious films. People who don't easily get caught up in nebulous mysteries and who may want things explained more clearly, will probably not care for this movie. So if you like vague, moody films that have a David Lynch type Surrealistic vibe to them, then you should really like this one.

It's a widely exploited\explored idea to try and find answers to what happens to a soul once it's out of the physical body, the stress is on the soul being in this state of "out of", the state of undecidedness, unclarity, ambiguity, obscurity, blindness & uncertainty.2 things came to my mind after watching the film: 1.the saying that one is destined\doomed to repeat his\her history if it's not properly remembered 2."The Others" starring Nicole Kidman. I suggest u compare the two films.A careful & attentive viewer could accept the film as being about(or mostly about or,at least, preferentially about) Life & Death(capitals), like The Others for instance, & not about life & death. The latter is the case with virtually every movie nowadays; and that's OK; because it's natural(or "nature"); but it's not that important(in my view) because the latter(l&d) is a local perception while the former(L&D)- is a global one.

I just caught Lost Things on Showtime a couple of days ago. Its bad when an Australian film comes out and people haven't even heard of it. Not sure about many of you but I had no idea about Lost Things at all. It all starts with four teens on a surfing holiday. Two men and two woman. Everything thing seems to be going fine till they meet a man called Zippo.This film had me in all the way I was confused and scared at the same time. It takes you a while work out what is going on. Then at the end I think It's up to you yourself to decide what really happened. Which I found to be quiet a good thing.The only few things I didn't like about this film was. I think just a few to many flashbacks of people just staring out to sea. The other was to cast two leading men that look nearly the same.I think this film was shot a very low budget so my hat goes off to the filmmakers. If you haven't got foxtel check it out on DVD a good little Aussie film.

"I know what you did last Blair Matrix!" I love horror films and this is one of the most refreshing I've ever seen. "Lost Things" has that unsettling, true-to-life feel of "Blair Witch". It takes the archetypal "teens in trouble" formula but then twists the familiar plot into a powerful and unsettling existential psycho-horror story. My "Matrix" reference is nothing to do with bullet time photography or Kung Fu but more about the way "Lost Things" bends perception of time and throws into question the nature of reality."Lost Things" not only celebrates and exploits familiar cinematic-horror elements, it blends them into something bigger than the sum of its parts and ends up being a wholly original and wonderfully disturbing entity. It's a slow pace to start with, which I appreciate in these days of high-octane, smart-alec, body-count horror flicks. Whilst being boldly 21st century, "Lost Things" shares the virtues of classics like "burnt offerings" and the "Changeling" - films that take the time to have you care for the characters and build a 'platform of reality' that makes the horror all the more effective once that platform begins to tilt. And once the momentum kicks in there is plenty of suspense.Director Martin Murphy is a craftsman and he's got together a great team. The sound track and design is harrowingly beautiful. The cinematography, editing, design and direction are congruent, all working together to deliver the story with clarity and atmosphere. Murphy has drawn intense and honest performances from his actors. The Actors well serve Stephen Sewell's terrific script, capturing the darkness, humour and vulnerability of adolescent social/sexual politics. Murphy is obviously working with a tiny budget but he knows what he's doing so we don't miss the crane and tracking shots at all. Far from it - this is one of those great indie films that exploits and transcends the low budget restrictions."Lost things" is a highly enjoyable and unique yarn of a horror film. Complex yet accessible, it creeps in under the skin and continues to seep deeper into the bones. Well worth checking out.