Is The Changeling actually good?

The Changeling sits in the 89.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.9% of them.

How does The Changeling compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Changeling lands in the 89.6% 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 Changeling's score based on?

324 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Changeling's score.

1980

global pct

89.9

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

The Changeling

Name: The Changeling
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 1980

Scored from 324 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

324 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After his wife and daughter are killed in a car accident, composer John Russell relocates to a secluded Seattle mansion to grieve and compose. He soon discovers the house is haunted by the restless spirit of a child, and his investigation into the ghost's identity uncovers a decades-old conspiracy tied to a powerful family.

Released in 1980, The Changeling is a horror and mystery film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 324 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 329 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Changeling (1980) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 324
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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