You could be right, but in that case why hasn't the imdb staff taken down Kandisha too, or removed the fake votes?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing just for the sake of it, and I might very well be wrong, but I have seen other films with similar scores which are not fakes.
I'll give an example:
Mission London (2010) was released only in Bulgaria (and apparently in Hungary), and appeared on few, mostly local festivals (though I have to say the marketing in Bulgaria was huge). It has 4,826 votes, with an average score of 7.6 and 52.6% 10/10s and 131 votes from US users, even though it was never shown in the USA.
And I can assure you all these votes are legit, coming from Bulgarians who voted so high out of some sense of patriotism and because even though the film wasn't so good, it was still something fresh for Bulgarian cinema.
Similarly, Footsteps in the Sand (2010), another average film, has a score of 8.2 and 53.6% 10/10s, though less people have voted for it (only 1,017). But Bulgaria has a population of only 7 million, while there are 33 million people living in Morocco, so I am not surprised Kandisha has over 5,000 votes.
Other similar cases are Tilt (2011), Love.net (2011)...
And these are just Bulgarian films, and I am sure this happens in other countries too.
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rnlol
9 years ago
Mission London is available on DVD and it's up on the torrents, so it has far greater exposure than Kandisha. And even it only has 161 votes from US voters, as opposed to Kandisha's 657. That one detail is what suggests most strongly to me that this is a scam (its high rating may be partially attributable to Moroccan patriotism, sure, but that doesn't account for the high rating from a relatively high quantity of US voters who, it seems, have no way of even seeing the movie in the first place).
As for why they haven't removed it yet - I guess because it's not as clear-cut as Carnivores was; there was barely even any evidence that Carnivores existed, whereas Kandisha is clearly a real film.
Anyway, if it is a scam, it's definitely worked, because I am interested in seeing the film.
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m-vaskes
9 years ago
Yeah, you've got a point there.
And I want to see it too. That random David Carradine moment at the end of the trailer cracks me up. :D
But if it's a marketing scam, it is only partially successful, because even though we would watch the film, we can't. :D
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