Preface
What follows is a collection of recovered documents and other curios related to The Realm, a fantasy film shot in 1981 but never released. These documents include various world building notes by the author, lists of possible creatures and characters, and illustrations by the film’s production designer. Most of the documents you’ll find were first found and collected in a defunct newsgroup page dedicated to the film, last housed at punklore.com (all of it was taken down, more on that later). Collectors and fans began the site to track and trade Realm-related memorabilia; by the time of its dissolution, it had evolved from a site to trade found footage and bits of plot and script pages into a place to trade conspiracy theories about the movie’s behind-the-scenes turmoil. Publisher God-eat-god Worlds purchased the rights to The Realm in 2…
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