Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Scream 2
Scored from 541 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Sydney Prescott begins her college life attempting to move beyond the Woodsboro killings, but a new Ghostface killer emerges on campus to target her and her friends. As brutal murders unfold during a horror-film premiere and spread across campus, Sydney must confront the masked killer's return.
Released in 1997, Scream 2 is a horror, thriller and mystery film. Its certificate is R. Wes Craven directed it. It runs 2h. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox head the billed cast.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 541 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 560 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7,052 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 2 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 541.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
