Film · 2012 · Films · 2010s
Dark Shadows
Scored from 508 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A vampire aristocrat, Barnabas Collins, is cursed and imprisoned for 200 years. When accidentally freed in the present day, he returns to his crumbling estate to find his descendants and the seaside town of Collinsport transformed beyond recognition. He must adapt to modern life while confronting the witch who cursed him.
Dark Shadows is a 2012 horror, comedy and fantasy film. It was directed by Tim Burton. It runs 1h 53m. It is rated PG-13. It stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy. It was made in the United States.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 508 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 520 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 Dark Shadows 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 508.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
