Realms

Not very good, bad cgi and acting. Find something else to watch

It's just a waste of time! No storyline, no meanings!

American couple Bobby and Jewel rob a bank in Thailand leaving a trail of dead bodies. They take three hostages; female customers Winny and Earn along with rideshare driver Chaow. They crash the car after escaping the police. They find shelter in an abandoned mansion but it is not so abandoned.

There are some weakness with the opening bank robbery. It needs to say where they are. The bank looks like the hallway in a commercial building after they laid out a few chairs. The car chase has potential but it ends weakly. The majority of the movie is the haunted house and that's not that great either. It goes nowhere fast and does nothing new. The villains also have potential but they are not fully realized. It's all second tier recycled material.

First off, I'm a fan of Thai horror... from the excellent ones like Shutter, which made me scared to pick up my camera, to the low-brow spooky comedies (kind of fun popcorn entertainment). But Realms is neither scary nor entertaining. It tries to be clever with deja vu flashbacks overlaid with karmic plot twists set in a wait for it... haunted house. The real horror of this movie was the tragic waste of life - my own. I can never get back the 1 hour and 30 minutes that died.

Not scary, not funny, not thrilling, not exciting, not authentic, not fun. Wrong on all accounts. Bad acting, bad soundtrack, very poor storyline. A total waste of time. This movie is full of cliches and the writer and the director don't seem to know what they're copying or how those images and themes they try to imitate originated and when and how they became unoriginal, tired cliches.