《了望台》以一个看不见的叙述者要求的疯狂冲进森林开始：“现在告诉我：什么是蜥蜴？”下面是一部关于一群男孩和他们与一个神话生物对抗的精彩短片。如果你一直在寻找一些看陌生人的东西，你可能会满足-至少在接下来的12分钟。

Directed by David Bousquet, the film is a condensed fantasy epic that drops the viewer right into its moody world with m***ters. The story hopscotches between the present, as a boy named Pehn escapes into the forest of Eyrewood, and the past as he trains with his friends to become the town’s lookout.

The short film beautifully executes on the style of long-lost pulp movies and thick paperback novels from the 1980s, like Willow or Terry Brooks’ Shannara Chronicles. It’s anachronistically earnest. Fun fact: it's based off of a Penny Arcade comic.

This isn’t too dissimilar to Netflix’s breakout show this summer: a group of boys facing a strange and dangerous force. While this short film’s length is a fourth of a Stranger Things episode, it feels as though it could easily span its own series. Shorts like this have a precedent of becoming feature films, though perhaps we shouldn’t mention Pixels as the most recognizable example.