Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Event Horizon
Scored from 750 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A rescue team investigates the Event Horizon, a massive experimental spacecraft that vanished and mysteriously reappeared near Neptune after testing a revolutionary propulsion system. As the crew boards the abandoned ship to search for survivors, they encounter increasingly terrifying phenomena that suggest something catastrophic and inexplicable occurred during its maiden voyage.
Event Horizon is a 1997 science fiction, horror and thriller film starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill and Kathleen Quinlan. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom and the United States. Its certificate is R. Paul W.S. Anderson directed it. It runs 1h 36m.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 750 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 780 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,630 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Event Horizon 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 750.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
