Is Terror Train actually good?

Terror Train sits in the 30.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 30.1% of them.

How does Terror Train compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Terror Train lands in the 28.2% 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 Terror Train's score based on?

133 calibrated reviewers stand behind Terror Train's score.

1980

global pct

30.1

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Terror Train

Name: Terror Train
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1980

Scored from 133 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

30.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

28.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

14.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

133 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Three years after a cruel college prank goes horribly wrong, the fraternity and sorority members responsible throw a costume party aboard a chartered New Year's Eve train. As the celebration rolls through the night, a masked killer begins picking off the partygoers one by one, swapping costumes with each victim to stay hidden in the crowd.

Terror Train is a 1980 horror, mystery and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 278 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 133 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 134 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.