Is Child's Play actually good?

Child's Play sits in the 73.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.9% of them.

How does Child's Play compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Child's Play lands in the 71.0% 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 Child's Play's score based on?

380 calibrated reviewers stand behind Child's Play's score.

1988

global pct

73.9

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Child's Play

Name: Child's Play
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1988

Scored from 380 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

73.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

71.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

380 calibrated reviewers

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 are calibrated for this title, 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.