Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Day of the Dead
Scored from 376 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
In an underground military bunker, a small group of scientists and soldiers struggle to survive after zombies have overrun the world above. Tensions between the factions boil over as a researcher attempts to domesticate a captured zombie, while supplies and sanity dwindle. George A. Romero's third Living Dead film turns the conflict inward, pitting the living against each other as much as the dead.
Day of the Dead (1985) is a film IMDb files under the horror and thriller genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 376 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 389 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.
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 Day of the Dead 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 376.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
