Is Alligator actually good?

Alligator sits in the 68.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 68.1% of them.

How does Alligator compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Alligator lands in the 65.3% 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 Alligator's score based on?

152 calibrated reviewers stand behind Alligator's score.

1980

global pct

68.1

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Alligator

Name: Alligator
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1980

Scored from 152 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

68.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

65.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

87.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

152 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A baby alligator flushed down a Chicago toilet grows to monstrous size in the sewers after feeding on the carcasses of dogs used in illegal hormone experiments. A weary detective haunted by a partner's death teams with a reptile expert to track the creature as it surfaces and begins killing across the city.

Alligator (1980) is a film IMDb files under the horror, science-fiction and thriller genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 284 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 152 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 152 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.