Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Dagon
Scored from 185 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After a boating accident off the coast of Spain, a young businessman and his girlfriend seek help in the decaying fishing village of Imboca. The eerily deserted town hides residents who are not entirely human, worshippers of a sea god who demand sacrifices. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's stories, the film follows his desperate attempt to escape as he uncovers the village's monstrous secret and his own connection to it.
Released in 2001, Dagon is a fantasy, horror and mystery film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 185 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 189 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 477 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 Dagon 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 185.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
