Is The Evil Dead actually good?

The Evil Dead sits in the 76.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 76.3% of them.

How does The Evil Dead compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Evil Dead lands in the 73.7% 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 Evil Dead's score based on?

739 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Evil Dead's score.

1981

global pct

76.3

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

The Evil Dead

Name: The Evil Dead
Genre: Horror
Released: 1981

Scored from 739 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

76.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

73.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

739 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Five college friends travel to a remote cabin in the Tennessee woods for a weekend getaway. After they discover a tape recording and the Book of the Dead in the cellar, playing the recording unleashes malevolent demonic forces that begin possessing them one by one. Lone survivor Ash must fight to make it through the night as his friends turn into murderous Deadites.

The Evil Dead is a 1981 horror film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 8,406 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 739 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 768 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

Is The Evil Dead (1981) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 739
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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