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Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing
An anonymous reader writes "A film set to be released for free via BitTorrent has been denied a listing in the Internet Movie Database. The Tunnel is currently in production and despite pleas from the makers, IMDb won't allow it on their site. The creators of this horror movie believe that because they have shunned an official distributor and chosen a BitTorrent model instead, this has put them at a disadvantage with the Amazon-owned site."
Because they have a point to make and like all stubborn, obstinate children, they will bitch and moan and throw a tantrum about how it's "not fair".
Fucking Buck Up and take it to a film festival.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The article is actually biased and misleading.
IMDB denied a pre-production listing for a low budget horror film... damn... those are only a dime a dozen.
How about when they do release and then get denied we talk about it then?
I'm quite certain IMDB receives hundreds of similar requests and I am in no lesser of a position having not been aware of each of them. The truth is I don't care and I'm not going to watch their cheap horror flick no matter how much gimmick they throw into it. It's also not the first time someone has released a bad movie via download only.
Something else that bothers me and I don't know the answer (but should have asked). I've had lots of startup director friends over the years because I was heavily involved in broadcast engineering in the past. Every damn one of those guys wanted to make a low budget horror film and of course eventually each of them did. They were all awful and the guys who made the garbage were getting laid left and right. I suppose it's more of an observation then a question because I don't want to know why.
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