Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
Lights Out
Scored from 401 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A young woman discovers that a malevolent entity from her mother's troubled past has returned to torment her family. The creature, Diana, can only exist and attack in darkness, vanishing whenever a light is switched on. As her younger half-brother becomes the entity's target, she must confront the supernatural force and uncover its disturbing connection to her mother's mental illness.
Lights Out is a 2016 horror and mystery film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,174 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 401 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 409 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 13,058 2010s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Lights Out 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 401.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
