Is The Ghost and the Darkness actually good?

The Ghost and the Darkness sits in the 57.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 57.2% of them.

How does The Ghost and the Darkness compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Ghost and the Darkness lands in the 55.7% 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 Ghost and the Darkness's score based on?

173 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Ghost and the Darkness's score.

1996

global pct

57.2

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

The Ghost and the Darkness

Name: The Ghost and the Darkness
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1996

Scored from 173 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

57.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

55.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

71.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

173 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In 1898 British East Africa, engineer John Patterson is sent to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River, but the project is terrorized by two man-eating lions that kill workers night after night. Patterson teams up with seasoned big-game hunter Charles Remington to track and stop the seemingly unstoppable predators. Based on a true story.

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, drama and thriller genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 173 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 178 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 173
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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