Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Scream
Scored from 1,085 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
A masked killer known as Ghostface begins murdering teenagers in the small town of Woodsboro, California. As the murders escalate, a group of high school students including Sidney Prescott becomes the target of the killer's deadly game. The film opens with an intense attack on Casey Becker before introducing the main characters and their interconnected lives.
Scream is a 1996 horror, thriller and mystery film directed by Wes Craven. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 51m and carries an R certificate. Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox head the billed cast.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 1,085 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 1,141 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 190 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Scream 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 1,085.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
