Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
Prince of Darkness
Scored from 265 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A team of physicists and graduate students is summoned by a Catholic priest to investigate a mysterious cylinder of swirling green liquid hidden in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church. As they study it, they discover the substance is a sentient evil tied to an ancient prophecy, and one by one the group is picked off as the entity tries to bring its father into our world.
Prince of Darkness (1987) is a film IMDb files under the fantasy and horror genres.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 793 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 265 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 270 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Prince of Darkness 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 265.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
