Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Re-Animator
Scored from 257 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Stuart Gordon's horror comedy, loosely adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's serial Herbert West–Reanimator, brings Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) to Miskatonic University Medical School in Arkham after his experiments in Zurich end with his mentor's death. West has synthesised a luminous green reagent that restores life to dead tissue; he rents a room from classmate Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), converts the basement into a laboratory and draws Dan into after-hours work in the hospital morgue. The reanimated subjects return violent and incoherent, but West's larger obstacle is Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), the school's celebrated brain researcher, who wants the discovery for himself and has designs on Dan's girlfriend Megan (Barbara Crampton), the dean's daughter.
Re-Animator is a 1985 comedy, horror and science-fiction film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is Unrated. It runs 1h 26m.
The calibrated figure is built from 257 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. 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.
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 Re-Animator 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 257.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
