Film · 2022 · Films · 2020s
House of Darkness
Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
A smug, womanizing executive drives a woman he met at a bar back to her remote, palatial home, expecting an easy hookup. As the night unfolds over drinks and increasingly pointed conversation, she and her sisters turn the tables on him, revealing they are not what they seem. Neil LaBute's dialogue-driven thriller plays as a slow-burn reckoning for predatory behavior.
Released in 2022, House of Darkness is a comedy, horror and mystery film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 118 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 120 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 45 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 House of Darkness 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 118.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
