Is The Burning actually good?

The Burning sits in the 62.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 62.9% of them.

How does The Burning compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Burning lands in the 60.2% 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 The Burning's score based on?

224 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Burning's score.

1981

global pct

62.9

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

The Burning

Name: The Burning
Genre: Horror
Released: 1981

Scored from 224 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

62.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

60.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

83.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

224 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Five years after a summer camp prank leaves caretaker Cropsy horribly burned, he returns with a pair of garden shears to take revenge on a new generation of teenage campers. As counselors and kids head out on a canoe trip, the disfigured killer stalks them through the woods of upstate New York.

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

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 224 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 228 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.