Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s
Pin
Scored from 54 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Leon and Ursula Linden are raised in a rigidly controlled house where their physician father explains anatomy and sex to them through Pin, a life-size transparent medical dummy he speaks for as a ventriloquist. Leon never stops believing Pin is alive, and once an accident leaves the siblings on their own he brings the figure home, dresses it in clothes and seats it in the armchair as the head of the household. His reliance on Pin hardens into a possessive need to manage Ursula's life, which her independence and her boyfriend Stan increasingly disturb. Sandor Stern's Canadian psychological horror film, adapted from Andrew Neiderman's novel Pin: A Plaything, stars David Hewlett with Terry O'Quinn as the father.
Pin (1988) is a film IMDb files under the horror and thriller genres. It was made in Canada. It runs 1h 43m. It is rated R.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 54 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 55 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 161 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 Pin 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 54.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
