Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Shaun of the Dead
Scored from 841 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A disaffected London slacker discovers his hometown is overrun by zombies. With his best friend Ed and his estranged mother, he must navigate the zombie-infested streets to reach safety at his local pub.
Released in 2004, Shaun of the Dead is a comedy, horror and thriller film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Kate Ashfield head the billed cast. Edgar Wright directed it. It runs 1h 39m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
The calibrated figure is built from 841 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 922 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 34,532 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 Shaun of the Dead 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 841.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
