Is Southern Comfort actually good?

Southern Comfort sits in the 71.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 71.8% of them.

How does Southern Comfort compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Southern Comfort lands in the 68.8% 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 Southern Comfort's score based on?

153 calibrated reviewers stand behind Southern Comfort's score.

1981

global pct

71.8

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Southern Comfort

Name: Southern Comfort
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 1981

Scored from 153 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

71.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

68.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

90.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

153 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A squad of Louisiana Army National Guardsmen on a weekend training exercise in the Atchafalaya bayou run afoul of local Cajun trappers after a thoughtless prank. Armed with blanks and lost in hostile swampland, the soldiers are picked off one by one as paranoia, poor leadership, and the unforgiving terrain turn the maneuvers into a desperate fight for survival.

Released in 1981, Southern Comfort is an action and thriller film.

The calibrated figure is built from 153 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 155 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.

Is Southern Comfort (1981) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 153
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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