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Jamie Blanks is a wonderful director, especially for wonderfully twisted horror films. Blanks, if his critics can see beyond the horrid Teen-Slasher flicks he's done, has a magnificent career waiting for him. He has a wonderful eye for lighting and placement of actors within a shot. Blanks has great talent for making mediocre stories (Valentine, Urban Legend) infinitely more disturbing. Now I know you are wondering how I can call them disturbing, think of it like this, would Valentine have been as scary if the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer had shot it. Would Urban Legend have had the same eerie feel if anyone else had shot it. I do not believe so and that's my only point. If you are considering watching any type of short horror/sci-fi film watch this.

Onto the movie itself, this movie has a wonderfully dark aura that is awful hard to create within a short film. Not only is the dark lighting of the film a factor, but the fact that there are few, if any close ups, aside from maybe two or three quick close ups. I'll tell you one thing; this story will make you think. Blanks gives you several clues to follow but, thankfully, because of the short nature of the film nothing is really resolved and we are left trying to figure out how everything fits together.

The Lost World admittedly has diverted from the ORIGINAL book. Unlike other shows that are based on books and end up leaving the central story L.W. finds interesting and new stories to tell which I feel, after reading the original story, are true to Sir Arthur Conan Doles essence of story writing. The characters are developed nicely. Every episode reveals a slightly different part of each character. This was real evident in this past season (three I think), throughout the season we find out about Malone's past and some of Marguerite's and Roxton's and even something surprising about Challenger. The season finale reveals what really happened to Veronica's family and her true past and something surprising about the plateau.