Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Bubba Ho-Tep
Scored from 298 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In a forgotten East Texas nursing home, an elderly man claiming to be Elvis Presley teams up with a fellow resident who believes he is John F. Kennedy to investigate a string of mysterious deaths among the patients. The unlikely duo discovers that an ancient Egyptian mummy in cowboy attire is stalking the halls, feeding on the souls of the aged and infirm, and they resolve to stop it.
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and horror genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,179 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 298 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 307 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Bubba Ho-Tep 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 298.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
