Is The Lost Boys actually good?

The Lost Boys sits in the 79.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 79.9% of them.

How does The Lost Boys compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Lost Boys lands in the 77.7% 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 Lost Boys's score based on?

395 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Lost Boys's score.

1987

global pct

79.9

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

The Lost Boys

Name: The Lost Boys
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1987

Scored from 395 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

79.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

77.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

96.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

395 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After moving to the seaside town of Santa Carla, California with their divorced mother, teenage brothers Michael and Sam discover the local beach community is overrun by vampires. When Michael falls in with a charismatic gang led by the mysterious David, Sam teams up with the self-styled vampire-hunting Frog brothers to save him before he turns for good.

The Lost Boys (1987) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and horror genres.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 395 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 409 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Lost Boys (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 395
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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