Is Messiah of Evil actually good?

Messiah of Evil sits in the 65.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 65.4% of them.

How does Messiah of Evil compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, Messiah of Evil lands in the 57.1% 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 Messiah of Evil's score based on?

128 calibrated reviewers stand behind Messiah of Evil's score.

1974

global pct

65.4

Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s

Messiah of Evil

Name: Messiah of Evil
Genre: Horror
Released: 1974

Scored from 128 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

65.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

57.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

83.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

128 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young woman travels to the strange California coastal town of Point Dune in search of her missing artist father, only to find the residents behaving oddly under the shadow of an approaching blood moon. As she pieces together her father's increasingly deranged diary, she and a trio of drifters staying in his beach house uncover a creeping supernatural evil tied to an old local legend.

Messiah of Evil is a 1974 horror film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 89 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 128 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 129 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Messiah of Evil (1974) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 128
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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