Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
Interview with the Vampire
Scored from 369 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In present-day San Francisco, a centuries-old vampire named Louis recounts his life story to a journalist. He describes being turned in 1791 Louisiana by the charismatic Lestat, their volatile companionship, and the child vampire Claudia they create together, whose growing rage at her eternal childhood drives the trio toward tragedy across two continents.
Released in 1994, Interview with the Vampire is a drama, fantasy and horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 369 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 390 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Interview with the Vampire 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 369.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
