Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s
Sleepaway Camp
Scored from 338 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Years after a tragic boating accident, shy and traumatized Angela is sent with her cousin Ricky to Camp Arawak for the summer. As Angela endures relentless bullying from fellow campers and counselors, a string of brutal and inventive killings begins claiming her tormentors one by one. The mystery of who is behind the murders builds toward one of the most shocking final reveals in slasher film history.
Sleepaway Camp is a 1983 horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 338 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 348 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,386 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Sleepaway Camp 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 338.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
