Is The Black Cat actually good?

The Black Cat sits in the 66.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 66.3% of them.

How does The Black Cat compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Black Cat lands in the 63.6% 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 Black Cat's score based on?

52 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Black Cat's score.

1981

global pct

66.3

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

The Black Cat

Name: The Black Cat
Genre: Horror
Released: 1981

Scored from 52 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

66.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

63.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

78.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

52 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Black Cat (1981) is a film IMDb files under the horror genre.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 77 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 52 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 52 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.