Miracles with the ratings

You guys(and gals?) are hilarious.

I've been a supporter of this film since it came out. With the amount of conspiracy theorizing going on between the 100+ of you that hate this movie with such a passion that you will raise your fists in protest until it's destroyed, you would think the lot of you would actually love this movie about conspiracy theories!

No my son, I will tell you precisely what is happening here.

A majority of the people watching this film, believe it or not, like it. You can rant about Rotten Tomatoes and whatever else you want. Rotten Tomatoes doesn't even have a tomato score for the film. Why? Because only a select few recognized outlets even reviewed it. Many other smaller independent critics did review it, and most of them loved Beta Test.

See, I would bet big money that most of the vocal haters behind this film are not from the United States. I have no idea what this means, but it sure is interesting that most of the 1 votes are coming from the UK and abroad. Second, you'll notice that the earth has several timezones. Third you'll notice that most of the voting is coming from inside the USA. Since most people tend to watch movies around 6-10pm in the USA, they probably won't be rating a film until late that night, which would be a totally different voting time than most of the Non-US users.

This is not a studio film. Indie movie imdb scores fluctuate all the time! They go up, they go down, and up again. Why? Because there aren't countless thousands of people voting at once. There's a few hundred here, a few hundred there, and it all adds up to a few thousand when its said and done.

But most of these 1 votes are coming from abroad in very very small numbers compared to the other votes, at different times of day. And you guys are so passionate and so vocal and so angry that you'll vote hard and fast and tell all your buddies to hate the film too because its "so unfair" that a movie you hated isn't being hated by everyone.

I noticed the score drop rapidly once it hit VOD. That's because you foreigners pirated this movie as soon as it hit the torrent sites and voted before anyone in the US even had a chance to watch it. By that day there were already 30 or 40 1 star votes!

I couldn't believe my eyes that so many people just missed the point entirely with this movie. But here we are.
A number of you just didn't get the film. You just totally did not get it. I read some of these bogus reviews. You guys are comparing this to SyFy channel stuff. Are you totally insane? You have no idea what you're talking about if you really don't see the quality of this film compared to the stuff on SyFy.

So outside of all the people who are actually doing the right thing and renting this movie or buying this movie in the US - which is the only country the film is officially released in at this time, there are also big supporters like myself, who can't stand little weasels like yourself. So what do I do? I go and buy 100 copies of the DVD and I pass it around work with a note saying all you have to do is post about it on Facebook or rate it on imdb. So people like me who help a small film that deserves to be seen are going to do whatever they can to counteract the BS hate thrown around by haters like you who seek out to destroy.

The score is wonky because people vote at different times and at different rates in different countries and because its an indie film. Period.

For your sake I hope you have more going on in your life than to care so much about attacking a movie like this. Cheerio.

It went down to 6.8, then there's another magical influx of hundreds of 9 and 10 votes overnight again! Again tell me about the target audience of teenage and 40 year-old women who like video games in the UK that all vote at once.