Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s
Beetlejuice
Scored from 493 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A recently deceased couple hires a mischievous and vulgar ghost named Beetlejuice to scare away the new residents of their home. When his chaotic antics spiral out of control, the couple must navigate the afterlife's bureaucracy while dealing with their ghostly con artist and increasingly disturbing schemes.
Tim Burton directed Beetlejuice, a comedy, fantasy and horror film from 1988. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. It stars Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. It is rated PG. The runtime is 92 minutes. It was made in the United States.
493 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 507 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Beetlejuice 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 493.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
