Film · 2016 · Films · 2010s
The Forest
Scored from 218 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Summary
An American woman travels to Japan's Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji after learning her twin sister has gone missing there. Despite warnings to stay on the path in the notorious 'suicide forest,' she ventures in with a guide and a traveler she meets along the way, only to find that the forest preys on the grief and guilt of those who enter it.
The Forest is a 2016 horror, mystery and thriller film.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 513 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 218 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 222 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2010s films — 13,059 of them.
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 Forest 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 · 2010s (13,059 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 218.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
