Run -- do not walk -- away from this awful movie.

Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead is just flat-out awful. The storyline is terrible and full of gaps, the special effects are embarrassingly bad, the acting is stale and oftentimes painful to watch, and the editing is just atrocious, with no transition between one scene and the next. Most of the homemade videos you'll find on YouTube have a higher production quality than this film.

Some plot elements seemed to have been added on a whim midway through the story, and the ending makes this whole bitter pill even harder to swallow.

The film stars Colie Knoke as Addison London, a young model who begins seeing and hearing things in the wake of a personal tragedy. After consulting everyone from a tarot card reader to a neurologist, she finally begins to face the fact that scores of dead spirits are trying to communicate with her. I'll bet you're thinking they communicate with her via text messages -- you are thinking that, aren't you? Well, you're quite wrong. She only receives a couple of text messages from one spirit -- and she pretty much just ignores those.

Knoke does a horrible job playing the part of a distraught and scared woman battling grief and an unceasing assault by spirits looking for help -- and, unfortunately, she's probably the best actor/actress in the entire film.

Most movies this bad have a comparatively short runtime, but Paranormal Extremes drags on for an excruciating 100+ minutes. Most viewers won't make it through the first ten. It really is that bad.