Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s
Night of the Living Dead
Scored from 193 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Tom Savini's color remake of George A. Romero's 1968 classic. When the recently dead inexplicably return as flesh-eating ghouls, Barbara flees to a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse and barricades herself inside with a resourceful stranger named Ben and a handful of other terrified survivors. Tensions inside the house prove nearly as deadly as the growing horde outside.
Released in 1990, Night of the Living Dead is a horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 193 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 196 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,990 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Night of the Living Dead 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 193.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
