Film · 1977 · Films · 1970s
Rabid
Scored from 123 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
After a catastrophic motorcycle accident, a young woman undergoes experimental skin-graft surgery at a nearby plastic surgery clinic. The procedure leaves her with a strange new appetite for human blood, and those she feeds on become rabid, violent carriers of a fast-spreading plague that erupts across Montreal.
Released in 1977, Rabid is a horror and science-fiction film.
The calibrated figure is built from 123 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 126 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Rabid 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 123.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
