Is The Dark actually good?

The Dark sits in the 7.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 7.6% of them.

How does The Dark compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1970s, The Dark lands in the 6.2% 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 Dark's score based on?

60 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Dark's score.

1979

global pct

7.6

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

The Dark

Name: The Dark
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: 1979

Scored from 60 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

7.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

6.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles

3.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

60 calibrated reviewers

Summary

The Dark (1979) is a film IMDb files under the horror, science-fiction and thriller genres.

Only 60 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 60 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.