Is The Fog actually good?

The Fog sits in the 75.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 75.3% of them.

How does The Fog compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Fog lands in the 72.6% 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 Fog's score based on?

426 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Fog's score.

1980

global pct

75.3

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

The Fog

Name: The Fog
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1980

Scored from 426 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

75.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

72.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

426 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On the centennial of the coastal California town of Antonio Bay, a glowing fog rolls in from the sea carrying the vengeful ghosts of mariners betrayed and drowned by the town's founders a hundred years earlier. A late-night radio DJ, a hitchhiker, and a local priest piece together the dark secret as the spectral crew hunts down residents to claim six lives in payment for the original crime.

Released in 1980, The Fog is a horror and thriller film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,886 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 426 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 435 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside.