Is The House by the Cemetery actually good?

The House by the Cemetery sits in the 32.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 32.7% of them.

How does The House by the Cemetery compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The House by the Cemetery lands in the 30.5% 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 House by the Cemetery's score based on?

178 calibrated reviewers stand behind The House by the Cemetery's score.

1981

global pct

32.7

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

The House by the Cemetery

Name: The House by the Cemetery
Genre: Horror
Released: 1981

Scored from 178 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

32.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

30.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

15.9%

AI-adjusted percentile

178 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A scholar moves his wife and young son into a New England country house to continue the research of a colleague who killed himself there. As the family settles in, the boy begins seeing a strange girl who warns him away, and they discover the cellar hides the tomb and dark secret of the house's original owner, Dr. Freudstein.

Released in 1981, The House by the Cemetery is a horror film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 178 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 180 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 394 of whom clear the calibration test.

Is The House by the Cemetery (1981) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 178
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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