Is Dead Calm actually good?

Dead Calm sits in the 65.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.2% of them.

How does Dead Calm compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Dead Calm lands in the 62.5% 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 Dead Calm's score based on?

156 calibrated reviewers stand behind Dead Calm's score.

1989

global pct

65.2

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Dead Calm

Name: Dead Calm
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1989

Scored from 156 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

65.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

84.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

156 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a devastating personal tragedy, naval officer John Ingram and his wife Rae take a recuperative sailing voyage on their yacht in the remote Pacific. When they encounter a seemingly abandoned schooner and a panicked lone survivor named Hughie Warriner, Rae finds herself trapped aboard with a dangerous stranger while John fights to survive on the sinking ship.

Dead Calm is a 1989 horror and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 722 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 156 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 159 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.