Is Fright Night actually good?

Fright Night sits in the 89.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.6% of them.

How does Fright Night compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Fright Night lands in the 89.4% 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 Fright Night's score based on?

311 calibrated reviewers stand behind Fright Night's score.

1985

global pct

89.6

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Fright Night

Name: Fright Night
Genre: Horror
Released: 1985

Scored from 311 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

311 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Teenager Charley Brewster becomes convinced that his charming new neighbor is a vampire preying on the local community. When the police and his friends refuse to believe him, he turns to Peter Vincent, a washed-up TV horror host who once played a vampire hunter on screen, to help him confront the threat next door.

Fright Night is a 1985 horror film.

The calibrated figure is built from 311 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 321 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.