Update - We're #8! We're #8!

Not as catchy as We're #1, but there's no way that's gonna happen. If we break top 5 I will be ecstatic.

We're getting hit with some bad reviews now, but it's totally expected. I don't even take them personally--you gotta understand the mindset of the viewer. Look at those other movies up there...they all cost over a million dollars, many of them over 20 million...and then they decide to check out our little under $50K opus...

So it's no big deal to me.

Maybe you're wondering...what about your other movie, Bounty? Well, it's moving up too. It's broken into the top 100 horror movies(#87). I also did a cool little trick to entice the viewers.

You can add a background image that the peruser can see bits of behind the other icons. And then when they click off, it still shows for a split second. Like, this is how it looks normally:

You can only barely see the stuff in the background. But here's what it looks like in motion:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MQj4vJD7sO4

I'm not violating any terms because I made sure I painted out the nips and the crotch, and then darkened the crotch so you can't tell I've made her into a mannequin.

Anyway, will be curious to see these reviews since I think Bounty's been more warmly received by the younger generation than the older ones. (I had an older in-law tell my father in-law after watching Bounty that next time he'd just write a check for a couple of tickets so he didn't have to come to my next movie--that's how bad he didn't like it. )

Makes me laugh.

One Million Minute Club

We hit it at the 19 day mark.

We also got banned in Japan. I'm a little worried it's going to impact our stats, not because of Japan, but because all of a sudden we've disappeared from Amazon's online lists. Like, if you search my name or "Garden of Hedon" you'll see the Blu Ray.

It will say there's two movies under Amazon Prime, but if you click there you'll only see Bounty.

I sent them an email asking what's the deal. Hopefully they'll straighten it out because now that we're top 10, I'm dreaming we can be top 5...

We're at 133 on the Popular list. If we break top 100 there that's pretty big.

#9 With A Bullet

We were at #14 for a day or two, and then I saw this:

We're up to #48 in mystery, #149 in popular movies and we're on page one of Amazon Prime Horror movies.

It's all a little overwhelming at the moment.

Am comparing it to Bounty now that we've let that out of the bag to see how they stack up. Bounty is beginning to rise--it's at #167 in Horror right now, and the numbers are rising.

Stuck at #19

Again, worse problems to have. We've made it up to 72 in mystery. #242 in popular.

The dashboard updates slowly, always a couple of days behind. But I am happy to tell you that we've passed the half a million minute mark. I'd like to join Chance's Million Minute Club, so fingers crossed...

Bounty's gone live and is moving up slowly. It's actually up to #265 in horror. I haven't checked the popular list--probably isn't on it yet.

Hopefully the spreading of the news will help it out.

Stuck at #21--there are worse problems to have...

Still at #21 on the Horror list, so I checked the mystery list which is actually even bigger than horror. Didn't expect much, but look at that! We're #86 out of over 1300 movies.

But, uh, look at the numbers today.

IMG REMOVED

Almost 450,000. And what I thought DOES appear to be true; the more popular your movie, the more popular your movie gets. How long that stays, who knows? Enjoying it for now.

BUT!

Big surprise here for you. I actually put ANOTHER of my movies on Amazon Prime at the same time as GOH and ran a sort of blind test to see the difference between a movie I pushed versus one I didn't.

So feel free to click here and add "Bounty" to your watch list.

Surprisingly Bounty hasn't gotten zero views. I'm not sure how people have found it, but it's at nearly 20,000 minutes viewed. Far off from GOH, but still not as low as I would have expected.

Now, it doesn't have the boobs on the poster like GOH, so I don't expect those numbers. But I think it's a pretty entertaining movie(he said humbly) and seems to be a favorite among a lot of my younger "fans". Younger being under 30. 

Man I'm old.

Anyway, more later!

Garden of Hedon Update - #21 and hopefully climbing...

Look at that--it seems only fitting that I'm now on the same screen with Chance Shirley's Hide and Creep, since he's the one that got me to commit to putting GOH up there.

We're now 305 on the Popular Movies List, out of about 9900 movies.

And more importantly...brace yourself...
IMG REMOVED

Can you see that? Over a quarter MILLION minutes streamed now. In only about 2 weeks time.

I'm pretty stoked about this.

Garden of Hedon: #22 on the Amazon Prime Horror Movie List!

Not gonna lie. Pretty excited. I wasn't sure we were going to break top 100, much less top 25.

We're #374 on the Popular list(now with 9,111 movies total), and on page 3 of Amazon's actual web site under horror movies. It's all data, data, data to feed into my spreadsheet...

It's early, but so far the experiment certainly seems to be a success. Big thanks to Chance Shirley for pointing out that the $.15 per hour could actually add up to something more than $5.

We're currently at 134,000 or so minutes.