Is Pet Sematary actually good?

Pet Sematary sits in the 42.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.4% of them.

How does Pet Sematary compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Pet Sematary lands in the 40.1% 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 Pet Sematary's score based on?

346 calibrated reviewers stand behind Pet Sematary's score.

1989

global pct

42.4

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Pet Sematary

Name: Pet Sematary
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Released: 1989

Scored from 346 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

42.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

40.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

28.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

346 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A doctor moves his family to a rural Maine home near a mysterious burial ground with the power to bring the dead back to life, but what returns is not the same as what was lost. After a devastating family tragedy, he is tempted to use the cursed ground despite dire warnings from his elderly neighbor.

Pet Sematary (1989) is a film IMDb files under the fantasy, horror and thriller genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,257 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 346 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 353 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.