Is Idle Hands actually good?

Idle Hands sits in the 37.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 37.6% of them.

How does Idle Hands compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Idle Hands lands in the 34.9% 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 Idle Hands's score based on?

142 calibrated reviewers stand behind Idle Hands's score.

1999

global pct

37.6

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Idle Hands

Name: Idle Hands
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Released: 1999

Scored from 142 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

37.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

34.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

23.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

142 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A lazy stoner teenager discovers that his right hand has become possessed by a demonic force and is killing people on its own, including his parents and friends. With help from his undead buddies who refuse to move on, he tries to stop the murderous hand before it ruins his chances with the girl next door.

Idle Hands (1999) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and horror genres. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,712 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 142 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 150 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.