Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Stir of Echoes
Scored from 299 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
After being hypnotized at a party, a blue-collar Chicago telephone lineman starts seeing unsettling visions and is haunted by the restless presence of a young woman in his home. As his obsession grows and his family unravels, he becomes convinced the spirit wants him to uncover what happened to her in his quiet neighborhood.
Stir of Echoes is a 1999 horror, mystery and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,158 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 299 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 312 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 Stir of Echoes 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 299.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
