Film · 2017 · Films · 2010s
Ghost Stories
Scored from 288 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A skeptical professor who debunks paranormal frauds is challenged by his missing mentor to investigate three unexplained cases: a night watchman haunted in an abandoned asylum, a teenager who hits something in the woods, and a wealthy man troubled by a poltergeist during his wife's pregnancy. As he digs into each story, the cases begin to bleed into his own life.
Released in 2017, Ghost Stories is a drama, horror and mystery film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them. 288 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 294 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Ghost Stories 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 288.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
