Is The Children actually good?

The Children sits in the 45.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 45.5% of them.

How does The Children compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Children lands in the 50.4% 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 Children's score based on?

148 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Children's score.

2008

global pct

45.5

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

The Children

Name: The Children
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2008

Scored from 148 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

45.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

50.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

37.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

148 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During a snowy Christmas holiday, two families gather at a remote countryside house to celebrate together. When the children begin acting strangely after falling ill, their behavior turns increasingly hostile and violent toward the adults, forcing the parents to confront an unthinkable choice as the gathering descends into terror.

Released in 2008, The Children is a horror, mystery and thriller film.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 148 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 151 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Children (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 148
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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