REWIND KINDLY Finalists!

The votes have been tallied, and I've got the list of finalists for you. As always, this is the tough time of these contests, because there were a lot of amazing films that I wanted to see again up on the big screen in tomorrow's award ceremony, but there just wasn't enough time.

When we counted the votes, we developed a formula that would rate a movie higher if it had more votes, so Andrew's non-existent "test movie" with one perfect score didn't beat out the movies with 890 "ten" votes and 600 "eight" votes. Make sense? Good.

The top ten finalists are:

Back to the Future Trilogy - Team Bullet Time
BEAST MASTER - BLACK MAGIC ROLLERCOASTER
John Carpenter's The Thing - Syracursed
Labyrinth - Dirty Hand Art
Purple Rain - Corporate Malfeasance
Say Anything - FOGAR
Speed - Banana Pants
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Lightning Bulb
The Princess Bride - The Inconceivables
The Princess Bride - Cupcake Monkey

The top ten finalists will have four tickets to the screening tomorrow night at the Alamo. We'll be screening and subjecting our panel of actual video store employees to the top FIFTEEN, though, and any film from the fifteen could end up being the grand prize winner. If you're not in the top ten, please come down to the screening anyway and we'll try to squeeze you in. The other five finalists chosen by online voters are:

Bambi - Flan
Be Kind Rewind - The Beta Maxx
Die Hard - Mascot Wedding
Speed - The Dancy Compound
Top Gun - The Fighting Pacifists

It's in the panelists' hands at the screening on Thursday night now. We'll have results of that posted here tomorrow night, and we'll also be making all of the scores every film received public and viewable on the site again.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this Frenzy, and we hope to see you all again for our next contest, BPM, which we'll have full details for very, very soon!