Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s
Child's Play
Scored from 380 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A widowed mother buys her young son a popular Good Guy doll for his birthday, unaware that a dying serial killer has used voodoo to transfer his soul into the toy. As the doll, Chucky, begins committing murders, the boy's frantic warnings are dismissed as a child's imagination, leaving him and his mother to convince a skeptical detective before the killer claims a new body.
Child's Play (1988) is a film IMDb files under the horror and thriller genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. 380 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 391 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Child's Play 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 380.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
