Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
Hellraiser
Scored from 468 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A mysterious puzzle box called the Lament Configuration opens a gateway to an extradimensional realm inhabited by supernatural beings called Cenobites. When discovered, the box draws the attention of these creatures and plunges those around it into a nightmare of pleasure and pain.
Hellraiser is a 1987 horror, thriller and fantasy film directed by Clive Barker. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 34m. Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins and Andrew Robinson head the billed cast.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,530 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 468 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 484 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Hellraiser 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 468.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
