Is Spawn actually good?

Spawn sits in the 7.8% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 7.8% of them.

How does Spawn compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Spawn lands in the 6.9% 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 Spawn's score based on?

215 calibrated reviewers stand behind Spawn's score.

1997

global pct

7.8

Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s

Spawn

Name: Spawn
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 1997

Scored from 215 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

7.8%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

6.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

0.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

215 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. 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.