Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s
Psycho II
Scored from 242 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Twenty-two years after the Bates Motel murders, Norman Bates is declared sane and released from psychiatric care over the objections of Marion Crane's sister. He returns to the old motel and house, takes a job at a local diner, and tries to rebuild a normal life. But strange notes, phone calls, and fresh bodies soon suggest that Mother may not be as dead as everyone believed.
Released in 1983, Psycho II is a crime, horror and mystery film.
3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 242 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 248 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 Psycho 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 · 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 242.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
