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Genre Question: Can Down River (2018) Possibly Be Approved for the Fantasy Genre

I was looking to build a list of really low rated fantasy movies and came across this possible anomaly. Down River(2018) is currently listed under the FANTASY genre. Without having seen the film, it claims that the "film is a remake of 'Fear and Desire' by Stanley Kubrick (1953)." In the past, I come up against the IMDb admins in terms of what qualifies for horror - ParaNorman, Coraline, Perfect Blue. Every time I try to edit these movies into that genre, I am flatly denied.

Before I edit this seemingly errant genre placement? Does this film actually qualify for whatever hidden propriety requirements for the fantasy genre? 

And to a lesser extent/aside why can't we learn what those genre parameters are?

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Hello Tsarstepan

Can you help us posting the 18-digits submission reference number for the rejections? to take a look for you!

You can find the submission number in your Contribution History page. 

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I saved most of the emails for awhile (months) then deleted them.

Perfect Blue:

221027-143318-778000

210809-235046-626000

Coraline:

Maybe that was a glitch in the updated system. I pushed it forward again.221005-185617-381000

Same thing for ParaNorman.

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I have checked and the three submissions are removing the Horror genre for three titles, now when checking the titles the genres are not live in the site in the titles.

Are there any other incorrect genres that you reported and did not go through?