Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
The Fly
Scored from 429 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Seth Brundle, a reclusive scientist working out of a converted Toronto warehouse, has built a pair of telepods that transmit matter from one to the other, and he demonstrates them to Veronica Quaife, a science journalist who documents his work and becomes his lover. Once he solves the problem of teleporting living flesh, Brundle steps into a pod himself, not noticing the housefly that slipped in with him, and the computer splices the two organisms at the genetic level. He first feels stronger and sharper than he ever has, then begins a transformation of body and mind that he cannot reverse. David Cronenberg's body-horror remake of the 1958 film.
The Fly is a 1986 drama, horror and science-fiction film. The runtime is 96 minutes. It is rated R. It was made in the United States.
429 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 438 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Fly lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 429.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
