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Needful Things (1993) poster
1993
global pct
26.5

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Needful Things

Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

26.5%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
24.2%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
11.8%
AI-adjusted percentile
121 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A mysterious shopkeeper named Leland Gaunt opens a curio store called Needful Things in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, offering each customer the one item they desire most. His prices seem cheap, but every purchase requires a small prank against another townsperson, and as the favors escalate, long-simmering grudges erupt into violence that threatens to consume the town. The local sheriff races to uncover Gaunt's true nature before Castle Rock destroys itself.

Needful Things is a 1993 crime, drama and fantasy film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 480 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 121 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 121 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.

Is Needful Things (1993) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers
121

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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