Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
Dolls
Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A group of travelers, including a neglected young girl, her cruel father and stepmother, a kind-hearted salesman, and two punk hitchhikers, take shelter from a storm in the remote mansion of an elderly dollmaker and his wife. As night falls, the guests discover that the couple's collection of dolls harbors a dark, magical secret that punishes the wicked at heart.
Dolls (1986) is a film IMDb files under the horror genre.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 130 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 134 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Dolls 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 130.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
