Is Heathers actually good?

Heathers sits in the 73.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.4% of them.

How does Heathers compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Heathers lands in the 70.4% 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 Heathers's score based on?

305 calibrated reviewers stand behind Heathers's score.

1989

global pct

73.4

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Heathers

Name: Heathers
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1989

Scored from 305 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

73.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

93.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

305 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At an Ohio high school ruled by a clique of cruel girls all named Heather, sardonic outsider Veronica Sawyer falls in with mysterious new student J.D. Their dark romance spirals when his solution to teen tyranny turns out to be murder staged as suicide, forcing Veronica to confront how far she will go to stop him before the body count grows.

Heathers is a 1989 comedy and crime film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 305 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 326 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.