Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Ravenous
Scored from 225 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
During the Mexican-American War, Captain John Boyd is exiled to a remote California outpost in the Sierra Nevada after a cowardly act on the battlefield. When a half-starved stranger stumbles into the fort with a horrifying tale of a snowbound party turned to cannibalism, Boyd leads a rescue mission into the mountains, where he confronts a predator drawing terrifying power from the Wendigo myth.
Ravenous is a 1999 adventure, drama and horror film.
225 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 232 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,388 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 4,081 other films from the 1990s 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 Ravenous 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 225.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
