Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s
Army of Darkness
Scored from 509 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After being transported to medieval England through a supernatural portal, Ash Williams must battle an army of the undead (deadites) and retrieve the Necronomicon to return to his own time. Armed with only modern weapons and wits, he faces both monsters and skeptical medieval villagers who believe him to be a sorcerer.
Army of Darkness is a 1992 horror, comedy and fantasy film directed by Sam Raimi. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. It runs 1h 21m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz and Marcus Gilbert head the billed cast. Its certificate is R.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,531 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 509 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 539 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Army of Darkness lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 509.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
