Is Lake Placid actually good?

Lake Placid sits in the 40.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 40.9% of them.

How does Lake Placid compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Lake Placid lands in the 38.0% 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 Lake Placid's score based on?

328 calibrated reviewers stand behind Lake Placid's score.

1999

global pct

40.9

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

Lake Placid

Name: Lake Placid
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Released: 1999

Scored from 328 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

40.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

38.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

25.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

328 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a fish and game officer in Maine discovers a severed body in a remote lake, he teams up with a sheriff, a New York paleontologist, and an eccentric mythology professor to investigate. The unlikely group soon realizes the lake harbors an enormous, man-eating crocodile, and they must figure out how to deal with the creature before it claims more victims.

Lake Placid is a 1999 action, comedy and horror film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,837 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 328 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 332 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.