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Ghost Runner thai drama review
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Ghost Runner
1 people found this review helpful
by labcat
Jan 18, 2021
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

Rather underwhelming whether as BL or as horror

I first started watching this because it was marketed as BL with an element of horror. I don't particularly enjoy horror as a genre, but BL with horror sounded like something unusual. The setting is in an isolated compound where something bad has happened a couple of years ago. A batch of student athletes are going there for a camp, and they encounter some hauntings (what else).

Unfortunately, the series is rather bland both as BL and as horror.

The BL elements are rather thin. There are actually two BL couples except that their love is revealed rather late in the series and not really focused on. For one of them, the one-sided love is rather suddenly reciprocated as one character kind of suddenly realizes that he is gay and in love with the guy who has confessed his love for him.

As horror, there is hardly anything but a few typical horror scenes. It's rather obvious that the haunting is not done by the ghost everyone thinks is responsible for it, but it is made to seem as though there is a big twist when this is revealed.

Some of the characters, like the director and his daughter, are rather inconsistent and merely seem to serve the situations the writer has come up with.

After trying to make the back stories of what happened a couple of years ago in the camp compound a big mystery for most of the episodes, the revelations (not that many) are rather underwhelming. The ghost problem also become resolved too easily, as though the writer suddenly realized that s/he has got to the last episode already.
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