Is City of the Living Dead actually good?

City of the Living Dead sits in the 52.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.2% of them.

How does City of the Living Dead compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, City of the Living Dead lands in the 49.7% 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 City of the Living Dead's score based on?

195 calibrated reviewers stand behind City of the Living Dead's score.

1980

global pct

52.2

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

City of the Living Dead

Name: City of the Living Dead
Genre: Horror
Released: 1980

Scored from 195 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

52.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

58.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

195 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a priest hangs himself in the cemetery of the New England town of Dunwich, the gates of Hell are opened, unleashing the dead upon the living. A psychic in New York senses the catastrophe and teams up with a skeptical reporter to travel to Dunwich and seal the breach before All Saints' Day, when the dead will rise everywhere.

City of the Living Dead is a 1980 horror film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 195 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 199 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 512 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is City of the Living Dead (1980) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 195
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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