Is Night of the Creeps actually good?

Night of the Creeps sits in the 85.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 85.5% of them.

How does Night of the Creeps compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Night of the Creeps lands in the 83.8% 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 Night of the Creeps's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Night of the Creeps's score.

1986

global pct

85.5

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

Night of the Creeps

Name: Night of the Creeps
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1986

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

85.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

83.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When alien parasites that turn their hosts into zombies are unleashed on a college campus, two fraternity pledges team up with a hard-boiled, haunted detective to stop the infestation before it overruns the town. A loving send-up of 1950s sci-fi and slasher tropes.

Night of the Creeps is a 1986 comedy, horror and science-fiction film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 160 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 162 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 756 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.

Is Night of the Creeps (1986) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 160
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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