TV Mini Series · 1979 · TV Mini Series · 1970s
Salem's Lot
Scored from 218 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1970s (31 peers).
Summary
Writer Ben Mears returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, to write a book about the brooding Marsten House, only to find a mysterious antiques dealer named Straker has moved in with a reclusive partner, Kurt Barlow. As townspeople begin disappearing and dying under strange circumstances, Ben and a small group of allies come to realize that an ancient vampire is preying on the town.
Salem's Lot (1979) is a miniseries IMDb files under the horror genre.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s miniseries — 31 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 218 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 227 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 Salem's Lot 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 TV Mini Series · 1970s (31 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 218.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1970s
