Is Scanners actually good?

Scanners sits in the 64.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 64.3% of them.

How does Scanners compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Scanners lands in the 61.8% 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 Scanners's score based on?

218 calibrated reviewers stand behind Scanners's score.

1981

global pct

64.3

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Scanners

Name: Scanners
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1981

Scored from 218 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

64.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

61.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

84.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

218 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A drifter discovers he is a 'scanner,' one of a small number of people born with powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Recruited by a shadowy security firm, he is sent to infiltrate an underground network of rogue scanners led by a ruthless figure with plans of his own, forcing a confrontation that uncovers the dark origins of their shared power.

Scanners is a 1981 horror, science-fiction and thriller film.

The calibrated figure is built from 218 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 220 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.