Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s
Phantom of the Paradise
Scored from 131 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A naive songwriter is swindled out of his rock cantata by a sinister music impresario named Swan, then framed, imprisoned, and horribly disfigured in an accident at a record press. Donning a mask and cape, he haunts Swan's glam-rock palace, the Paradise, seeking revenge while trying to ensure that the young singer he loves performs his music as he intended.
Released in 1974, Phantom of the Paradise is a comedy, drama and fantasy film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 756 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 131 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 138 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 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 Phantom of the Paradise 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 131.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
