Film · 2019 · Films · 2010s
Pet Sematary
Scored from 1,045 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
A family moves to a rural house near an ancient burial ground with mysterious supernatural properties. When their cat dies, they discover the burial ground's dark power to restore life—but at a terrible cost. As they grapple with this discovery, sinister forces begin to manifest.
Pet Sematary is a 2019 horror, thriller and drama film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Letourneau. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz and John Lithgow head the billed cast. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. The runtime is 101 minutes. Its certificate is R.
The calibrated figure is built from 1,045 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,080 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 804 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Pet Sematary 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 1,045.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
