We’ve taken all your nominees (minus a few duplicates and ineligible titles) and come up with 44 current Apocrypha Candidates for the readers to select their favorite. The winner will be written up as an official Apocryphally Weird entry; other movies that get high vote totals will receive extra editorial consideration. You may only vote for one movie and you may only vote once, so make it count! Voting closes on June 15.
Objectively, I would like to see all of these reviewed, but I’ll vote Everything, Everywhere because I think it’s the most popular.
Huh. I thought On The Silver Globe was already added to one of the lists?
Nope. This poll, and the Blu-ray release this year, may help its case.
Let’s go Globe!!!
A curious result: we ended in a tie between Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure and On the Silver Globe. Although I have suspicions that not all votes for Raggedy Ann were legitimate, we’ll allow it; both titles will be apocryphacized soon (well, maybe by the end of the Summer). We’ll also give extra note to the movies that got a significant number of votes without winning. Thanks to all who voted!
You’re not alone in your suspicions. I remember a similar event that happened back in 2014 when a very peculiar race unfolded between “Hour of the Wolf” and “Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.” Both vote polls were neck and neck and seemed to keep increasing throughout the day, with Ice Cream Bunny coming out as the winner. What usually happens in situations like this, from what I’m told, is that voting polls can be manipulated: a person will open different web browsers and vote multiple times for their favorite subject or film. They can also repeat this process using different computers or phones. And I have an inkling this might have been the case with Raggdy Ann and Ice Cream Bunny.
I don’t think any subterfuge like that was even needed. Many days when I came back to check the leaderboard, it appeared to give me the option to vote again. Same phone, didn’t clear my browser, nothing. I only voted once though.
Maybe someone didn’t read the rules closely enough, and just kept voting since it let them? Or maybe I’m just greatly underestimating how many people love that Raggedy Ann Musical and it won legitimately?
If you came back under a new IP address (as happens when people use VPNs) it would let you vote again. In that case you would only be bound by honor. I can see unusual patterns of many votes for the same thing in a row. If Raggedy Ann had won on its own, I would have a decision to make; but since it tied, it’s easy to add both and not worry about it.
I blame myself. If I would’ve known this tie was coming, I would’ve voted for On the Silver Globe. Instead I voted for Penda’s Fen, which I love but had no chance of winning in retrospect. I feel like I threw my vote away on Ralph Nader!
Honestly the two winners are a perfect yin-yang. One’s a weird but harmless children’s movie and the other is a movie that will leave you on the floor disturbed and feel like you saw the abyss wink back at you.