Tides of the Cekeki is a widely panned science fiction horror film famous for its messy production history, absurd premise, and its failure to make the cekeki scary. Despite the film focusing on a cast dominated by anomalous characters close to no anomalous actors were hired for the roles, with reviews describing the representation of a cekeki's lure effect as "inaccurate", "sloppy", and "frankly kind of insulting". Across the film's production an estimated 35000 points worth of cekeki were lost.