Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Teen Wolf
Scored from 131 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Scott Howard, an unremarkable high school student frustrated with his ordinary life, discovers he has inherited a family secret: he can transform into a werewolf. Embracing his new abilities, he becomes a star on the basketball court and the center of attention at school, but soon learns that popularity built on the wolf isn't the same as being valued for who he really is.
Released in 1985, Teen Wolf is a comedy, fantasy and romance film.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 131 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 136 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 Teen Wolf 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 131.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
