Is The Blob actually good?

The Blob sits in the 75.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.6% of them.

How does The Blob compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Blob lands in the 72.8% 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 Blob's score based on?

219 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Blob's score.

1988

global pct

75.6

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

The Blob

Name: The Blob
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1988

Scored from 219 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

75.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

93.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

219 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A gelatinous extraterrestrial organism crashes to Earth near a small Colorado town and begins consuming residents, growing larger with every victim. A teenage delinquent and a cheerleader try to convince skeptical authorities of the threat, only to discover the creature's origin involves a sinister government cover-up.

The Blob is a 1988 horror, science-fiction and thriller film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 219 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 220 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,844 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.