Is The Abominable Dr. Phibes actually good?

The Abominable Dr. Phibes sits in the 92.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.1% of them.

How does The Abominable Dr. Phibes compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Abominable Dr. Phibes lands in the 90.6% 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 The Abominable Dr. Phibes's score based on?

140 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Abominable Dr. Phibes's score.

1971

global pct

92.1

Film · 1971 · Films · 1970s

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Name: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1971

Scored from 140 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

92.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

140 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A disfigured organist and theologian, presumed dead in a car crash, returns to exact elaborate vengeance on the team of doctors he blames for failing to save his beloved wife on the operating table. Modeling each killing on the ten biblical plagues of Egypt, he stalks the surgeons one by one while Scotland Yard scrambles to decode the pattern before the final victim falls.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and horror genres. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

140 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 140 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.

Is The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 140
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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