Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
The Innocents
Scored from 231 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Jack Clayton's adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, scripted in part by Truman Capote, casts Deborah Kerr as Miss Giddens, an inexperienced young woman engaged as governess to two orphaned children at Bly, an isolated country estate in Victorian England. Their uncle wants no involvement and gives her complete authority over small Flora and her brother Miles, who has just been expelled from school for reasons nobody will explain. Piecing together the history of the previous governess, Miss Jessel, and the valet Peter Quint, Giddens becomes convinced that the two are still present at Bly and that the children are in communion with them. Shot in black-and-white CinemaScope by Freddie Francis, the film leaves open whether the hauntings exist outside her own mind.
The Innocents (1961) is a film IMDb files under the drama, horror and mystery genres. Its certificate is Approved. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. It runs 1h 40m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 70 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 231 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 238 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Innocents 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 231.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
