Is Serial Mom actually good?

Serial Mom sits in the 63.0% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 63.0% of them.

How does Serial Mom compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Serial Mom lands in the 62.1% 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 Serial Mom's score based on?

121 calibrated reviewers stand behind Serial Mom's score.

1994

global pct

63.0

Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s

Serial Mom

Name: Serial Mom
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1994

Scored from 121 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

63.0%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

62.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

80.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

121 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Beverly Sutphin appears to be the picture-perfect suburban Baltimore housewife and mother, doting on her dentist husband and two children. But beneath her cheerful exterior lurks a homicidal rage triggered by minor social infractions like wearing white after Labor Day or failing to rewind video rentals. As her body count rises, her family and the media must reckon with the cheerful killer in their midst.

Serial Mom (1994) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and thriller genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,262 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 121 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 125 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.