A Few Problems
Hi, There are a few problems with American Cannibal. I saw this movie at the Tribeca Film Festival just about 2 months ago. I thought it was a very entertaining movie but had no chance to win any awards and I was correct on that assumption. It did not.
The first problem is that 48 people have voted for this movie and it has a ranking of 8.3. Over 70 percent of the votes are either a 9 or 10 pushing the ranking up.
49 people voting is not out of the question for a film that has played a few festivals but this film has only from what I can tell played 2 festivals with a total of 7 screenings. Let's say in those 7 screenings there were a total of 1400 people. This would mean something like 1 out of every 29 people watching the movie came on here and loved it so much that they had to sign up for an IMDB account (like I just did) and vote!
Second problem I see is that there were 8 User Comments, All VERY VERY positive reviews that seem to be placed there by the filmmakers or close friends. The first 5 comments were all placed about 3 weeks after Tribeca Film Festival ended and all of the users that published comments had never published a review before. In any normal situation reviews and voting would happen within days of the festival screening ending. Instead these people had to let this movie sink in for 3 weeks to write a review.
The last 3 comments have come in the last week and all first time reviews except one of the members decided to review Sideways and give American Cannibal a better review.
Why don't the filmmakers let the film talk for itself instead of trying to rig IMDB to make it look like the movie is a masterpiece, it just isn't.
Alex Hastings