Is Psycho actually good?

Psycho sits in the 3.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 3.7% of them.

How does Psycho compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Psycho lands in the 3.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Psycho's score based on?

381 calibrated reviewers stand behind Psycho's score.

1998

global pct

3.7

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Psycho

Name: Psycho
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1998

Scored from 381 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

3.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

3.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

0.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

381 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A shot-for-shot color remake of Hitchcock's 1960 thriller. Phoenix secretary Marion Crane embezzles $400,000 from her employer and flees town, eventually stopping for the night at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the awkward young Norman Bates and his domineering, unseen mother. When Marion vanishes, her sister, her lover, and a private investigator come looking for her.

Released in 1998, Psycho is a horror, mystery and thriller film.

381 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 390 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.