FAKE REVIEWS


this "movie" was awful.
don't bother wasting your time.
or do, I dont give a s***.
one redeeming quality was the movie poster.


wish there was something to be done about all these fake reviews.

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Haven't seen it, sure it might suck.

BUT... when huge publications like the friggin' New York Times, Variety, Chicago Sun-Times and Hollywood Reporter all give it well above average reviews, there's clearly a good chance that many of the positive reviews here are real as well.


IMDb-boards would be less confusing if people would mark their signatures clearly.

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Just because you don't agree with a review doesn't make it fake. This film is great. It has atmosphere, originality and a great soundtrack. It's not some formulaic, predictable slasher movie remake, which is probably why so many of the so-called horror fans around here have taken against it.

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Just finished watching it. I liked it a lot. Metacritic has a bunch of reviews for it and they are all over the place. A solid horror movie, imo.

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I thought it was worth checking out. Not the best not the worst. But better than most.
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I thought it was better than most too. It was entertaining and held my attention on a Sunday afternoon. I've definitely seen way worse.

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The 2 reviews I read weren't fake, and both rated highly, but not 10, and had legit user history. However I normally scour for them and report them en masse when I see them. You can use the report and "other" drop down tab. I effing HATE how gamed IMDB is now. I always look for outside reviews.

Now, I thought the movie was awesome, but I liked V/H/S also, and this was by the same people. I liked that it made me wonder, they didn't feel like open plot holes, but more added to the suspense. I DO wish the stories had been connected more, but I get why they weren't- this is an homage to the older shows, like Twilight Zone, Friday The 13 The Series, Tales From The Crypt, et al. I grew up on those, so I can dig it, but I can definitely see why some may not.

Keep fighting the good fake review WAR! Incidentally, they almost always claim to have seen a movie at some BS special showing and give it a 10/10. They name drop effing everywhere and go on to name drop past projects everywhere. Easy to spot as you can click on their username and see if they've had any other site activity. Almost always it's a 3-5 year account with no activities but obvious as sh!t fake reviews, all copied and pasted from each other. I think they're so prevalent that they see each other's fake reviews and think they're real, so they write reviews like the (fake) ones they see. I can't imagine anyone would believe even .0000001% of the reviews here. Click my username and see how many of my past posts are calling this exact crap out. I've heard "marketing comapies" for all the big PR and agents, producers and whatnot, but how would that explain even seeing it for the 1* garbage that was obviously someone's way of washing dirty money

As an aside, this infiltration by "marketers" happens in ANYTHING popular. Sometimes you can see it, like ads on tv. Sometimes you can't, like posts on HN, eddit, etc. And sometimes it's just plain evil, like "sponsored content" (the fake news stories Southpark did an episode on recently).

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Hmm. Don't see the reviews were they taken down?

I disagree with you, however. I really enjoyed it.

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Hi - I actually gave this 9/10, I really enjoyed it - My missus absolutely hated it and walked out after half an hour! She'd probably review it as 1/10. Different opinions, but for a genuine movie (a movie where people don't keep putting the word 'movie' in quotes :P) I just love this type of film. Not sure about fake reviews on this one, and I've seen my fair share of fake reviews on IMDB over the years - I'm completely unconnected to the film - There's a lot of films on here which get high 'user' ratings which I then watch and decide the user ratings are fake (see some of my reviews), and there are some films I enjoy which everyone else lols at.

This movie as I said in my short review reminded me a lot of Reeker - That film was pretty good as far as I am concerned, but gets terrible reviews on here heh - We Brits rarely get decent horrors coming out of this small island, as with most other types of low budget UK films they are generally pretty crass and awful, but American low budget films seem to always have 100 times the budget of UK films so to me as a Brit, usually appear to have much better quality acting and higher production values as a given.

I appreciate and respect anyone's opinion on a film that I think is good but others think is crap as my female arch nemesis who I live with has a completely opposite taste in films to me so I respect yours too.

Oh, and Vegy - I read your review of The Shawshank Redemption (which ITV2 seems to show here every bloody fortnight and I'm sick to death of it) and it did make me chuckle - kudos for expressing yourself lulz

If you want to have a look at a film where practically all the initial user reviews REALLY ARE written by the same human, look at this film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2369600/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The person posting these multiple good reviews doesn't even change the date they were submitted - most are posted on three or four separate dates in bulk, and the poor ones come later. The multitude of 'reviewers' who gave it a thumbs up all talk in the same hippy-like way and all disappeared up their own arses once the reviews were on, never to be heard from again. Do these people think its going to help them get funding for more crap in the future or are they just trying to make a quick buck on the film while they can? Muffin Top is just dreadful - even my wife kicked off when I said I had to watch it to the end. She didn't talk to me for 2 days and said she was sick of me taking over the telly with crap.

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It's not great but it is watchable...I rate my watchable movies at 4/10 anything else less is just Garbage!

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