Is Re-Animator actually good?

Re-Animator sits in the 90.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 90.8% of them.

How does Re-Animator compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Re-Animator lands in the 90.4% 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 Re-Animator's score based on?

257 calibrated reviewers stand behind Re-Animator's score.

1985

global pct

90.8

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

Re-Animator

Name: Re-Animator
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1985

Scored from 257 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

90.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

257 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A brilliant but unhinged medical student arrives at Miskatonic University with a glowing green serum that can reanimate the dead. He recruits his skeptical roommate to help test it, but their experiments quickly spiral out of control, producing violent, half-crazed corpses and drawing the jealous attention of a rival professor. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft story.

Re-Animator is a 1985 comedy, horror and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 257 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 263 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.