Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s
Body Double
Scored from 210 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A struggling Hollywood actor, recently fired and dumped, house-sits a hillside home where he becomes obsessed with watching a beautiful neighbor through a telescope. When he witnesses what appears to be her brutal murder, he is pulled into a twisted mystery involving a porn star that forces him to confront his own phobias. Brian De Palma's stylish neo-noir thriller riffs on Hitchcock's Rear Window and Vertigo.
Body Double (1984) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and mystery genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 210 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 214 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 443 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Body Double 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 210.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
