Is Bad Taste actually good?

Bad Taste sits in the 62.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.3% of them.

How does Bad Taste compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Bad Taste lands in the 59.5% 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 Bad Taste's score based on?

219 calibrated reviewers stand behind Bad Taste's score.

1987

global pct

62.3

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Bad Taste

Name: Bad Taste
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1987

Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

62.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

59.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

82.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

219 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When the residents of a small New Zealand coastal town vanish, a government paramilitary squad called the Astro Investigation and Defence Service is dispatched to investigate. They discover the town has been overrun by aliens harvesting humans as the next exotic meat for an intergalactic fast-food chain, and the heavily armed team must fight back through escalating gore and chaos.

Bad Taste is a 1987 comedy, horror and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 219 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 231 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,741 of whom clear the calibration test.