Is Invasion of the Body Snatchers actually good?

Invasion of the Body Snatchers sits in the 87.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.6% of them.

How does Invasion of the Body Snatchers compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Invasion of the Body Snatchers lands in the 84.5% 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 Invasion of the Body Snatchers's score based on?

283 calibrated reviewers stand behind Invasion of the Body Snatchers's score.

1978

global pct

87.6

Film · 1978 · Films · 1970s

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Name: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1978

Scored from 283 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

87.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

84.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

283 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In San Francisco, a health inspector and his colleague begin noticing that friends and loved ones are behaving strangely, emotionally hollow versions of themselves. As they investigate, they uncover an alien invasion in which plant-like spores replicate and replace humans with soulless duplicates while they sleep, and the survivors struggle to stay awake and avoid detection.

Released in 1978, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a horror and science-fiction film.

283 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 284 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 283
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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