Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Sleepy Hollow
Scored from 723 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Forensic investigator Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of brutal murders attributed to the Headless Horseman. As he examines the crime scenes, Crane discovers the killings may be connected to supernatural forces and a local conspiracy rooted in the town's dark past.
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 horror, mystery and fantasy film starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Michael Gambon. Tim Burton directed it. The runtime is 105 minutes. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is R.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 723 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 758 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Sleepy Hollow 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 723.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
