Is A Blade in the Dark actually good?

A Blade in the Dark sits in the 44.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 44.7% of them.

How does A Blade in the Dark compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, A Blade in the Dark lands in the 42.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is A Blade in the Dark's score based on?

62 calibrated reviewers stand behind A Blade in the Dark's score.

1983

global pct

44.7

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

A Blade in the Dark

Name: A Blade in the Dark
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1983

Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

44.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

42.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

39.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

62 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A Blade in the Dark (1983) is a film IMDb files under the horror, mystery and thriller genres.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 62 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 62 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.

Is A Blade in the Dark (1983) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 62
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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