Film · 1992 · Films · 1990s
Pet Sematary II
Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After his actress mother dies in a freak on-set accident, teenager Jeff Matthews and his veterinarian father relocate to Ludlow, Maine, where Jeff befriends troubled stepson Drew Gilbert. When Drew's abusive stepfather kills the boy's dog, the two bury it in the ancient Micmac burial ground rumored to bring the dead back changed. The resurrections escalate, unleashing violent consequences on the town.
Released in 1992, Pet Sematary II is a fantasy, horror and thriller film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 121 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 123 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 675 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 II 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 121.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
