Is Basket Case actually good?

Basket Case sits in the 59.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.3% of them.

How does Basket Case compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Basket Case lands in the 56.3% 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 Basket Case's score based on?

171 calibrated reviewers stand behind Basket Case's score.

1982

global pct

59.3

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

Basket Case

Name: Basket Case
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1982

Scored from 171 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

59.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

56.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

76.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

171 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A shy young man arrives at a seedy New York City hotel carrying a locked wicker basket. Inside is his deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother, and together the pair set out to take bloody revenge on the doctors who separated them against their will.

Basket Case (1982) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and horror genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

171 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 172 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 577 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.