Is Blood Simple actually good?

Blood Simple sits in the 83.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 83.6% of them.

How does Blood Simple compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Blood Simple lands in the 81.8% 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 Blood Simple's score based on?

330 calibrated reviewers stand behind Blood Simple's score.

1984

global pct

83.6

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

Blood Simple

Name: Blood Simple
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1984

Scored from 330 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

83.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

81.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

330 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A jealous Texas bar owner hires a sleazy private detective to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover, one of his bartenders. The job spirals into a tangle of double-crosses, mistaken assumptions, and deadly miscommunication, as none of the players ever quite grasps what the others have actually done.

Blood Simple (1984) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and thriller genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,094 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 330 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 335 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.