Is Inferno actually good?

Inferno sits in the 59.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.0% of them.

How does Inferno compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Inferno lands in the 56.0% 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 Inferno's score based on?

162 calibrated reviewers stand behind Inferno's score.

1980

global pct

59.0

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Inferno

Name: Inferno
Genre: Horror
Released: 1980

Scored from 162 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

59.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

56.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

75.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

162 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An American poet living in New York receives a mysterious book from her brother in Rome about the Three Mothers, a trio of ancient witches who secretly rule the world from three buildings. As she investigates the strange occurrences in her gothic apartment building, she uncovers that it houses Mater Tenebrarum, the Mother of Darkness, while a series of grisly deaths surround anyone who learns the truth.

Released in 1980, Inferno is a horror film.

162 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 166 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.