Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
The Loved Ones
Scored from 179 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After Australian teenager Brent turns down a quiet classmate's invitation to the school prom, he is abducted and finds himself the unwilling guest of honor at a twisted private prom staged by the girl and her doting father. As the night unfolds in their suburban home, the family's disturbing rituals escalate into a nightmare of torture and dark family secrets.
The Loved Ones (2009) is a film IMDb files under the crime and horror genres.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 973 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 179 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 182 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
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 Loved Ones 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 179.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
