Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s
High Anxiety
Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Dr. Richard Thorndyke, a psychiatrist suffering from severe vertigo, arrives to take over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, only to discover that something sinister is going on behind the scenes. As he investigates, he must confront both a conspiracy by the institute's scheming staff and his own crippling fear of heights. A Mel Brooks comedy that lovingly parodies the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
High Anxiety (1977) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, mystery and thriller genres. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 688 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 123 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 126 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 2,405 other films from the 1970s 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 High Anxiety 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 123.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
