"The Lost Room: I was pleased to find it"

Title: The Lost Room
Year: 2006

Genre: Action, Mistery, Fantasy
Format: Miniseries
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Laura Harkcom, Chirstopher Leone
Runtime: 270min
Cast: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson.
Prod.: Lions Gate Films, Lionsgate Productions, Motel Man Productions

The Lost Room tells the story of detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause), who during one of his investigations finds a motel room that appears to be a portal to another dimension or parallel universe.

Craig R. Baxley presents us here his fourth directorial contribution in this format. Before he had directed other miniseries, as well as collaborated on some of them coordinating "stunts".

Prior to The Lost Room I had seen his previous works (The Triangle, Rose Red and Storm of the Century), but I think it was with the latest one that he obtained his best achievements. We're talking about a man who, fortunately, so far has always relied on very attractive arguments, beyond the fact that in none of the cases he has scripted the stories. Twice Baxley joined projects where the narrative would be in charge of the novelist and sometimes screenwriter Stephen King, who I consider myself a fan of, but whom I believe, however, that his virtues as a storyteller weakens when passing to the small screen.

In this new sci-fi miniseries Baxley introduces us to the interesting concept of what it would be like for anyone if, suddenly, one day we met with a particular motel room (to be precise, the Sunshine Motel, room 10) that was actually a portal that could transport us to wherever we wanted. Because in addition, this room has a key that, no matter where we´d used it, by just imagining a destination, we would open the door and be there. And last but not least, in this room there are some elements (e.g., a comb and scissors) that have certain very useful attributes. In the case of the comb, with it you could stop time for several seconds.

This is a solid miniseries, divided into three parts: the first "the key and the clock," the second "the comb and the box," and the third "the eye and the prime object." When I had barely seen the first part I was impatient to see the second, and the same thing happened with regard to the latter.

Furthermore, the good thing is that The Lost Room, beyond all fantasy-type items, doesn´t lack of an intelligent approach, whose development is worth following.

My rating: 10/10

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