Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Spawn
Scored from 215 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Government assassin Al Simmons is betrayed and murdered by his corrupt boss Jason Wynn, then resurrected from Hell as a Hellspawn warrior bound to serve the demon Malebolgia. Guided by a sadistic clown-like demon called the Violator, the disfigured Simmons must choose between leading Hell's army on Earth and protecting the wife and innocents he left behind.
Released in 1997, Spawn is an action, crime and drama film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 3,775 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 215 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 220 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.
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 Spawn 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 215.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
