Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Eden Lake
Scored from 501 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A couple, Steve and Jenny, travel to a remote lake for a romantic getaway, only to be terrorized by a group of aggressive local teenagers. What begins as intimidation escalates into a desperate struggle for survival as the situation spirals into increasingly dark and violent territory.
Eden Lake is a 2008 horror, thriller and drama film starring Michael Fassbender, Kelly Reilly and Jack O'Connell. It runs 1h 31m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. James Watkins directed it.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,106 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 501 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 521 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 Eden Lake 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 501.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
