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Murder by Death (1976) poster
1976
global pct
69.6

Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s

Murder by Death

Scored from 190 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

69.6%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
62.2%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
89.7%
AI-adjusted percentile
190 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain invites five of the world's greatest detectives, each a parody of a famous fictional sleuth, to his remote mansion for dinner and a murder. He challenges them to solve a killing that will occur at midnight, with a million dollars at stake, leading to a night of absurd twists, hidden passages, and shifting identities.

Murder by Death (1976) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and mystery genres. Its comedy subtype is Satire.

2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 190 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 191 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 861 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

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Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
190

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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