Film · 1964 · Films · 1960s
The Masque of the Red Death
Two parallel scores from 137 z-qualifying reviewers and 138 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers. The 16-point gap is the rating-inflation signature for this title — discriminating reviewers liked it more than the casual crowd.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 1,929 peers in Films · 1960s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.435 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.34 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.36 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.294 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 137 / 138 |
Summary
In medieval Italy, the cruel Prince Prospero, a devoted Satanist, retreats to his castle with his decadent noble guests to escape a deadly plague known as the Red Death ravaging the countryside. He torments a captured peasant girl and her loved ones while staging a lavish masked ball, but a mysterious robed stranger arrives uninvited, and no walls can keep death outside forever.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
137 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.435. DB2 raw mean = 7.36.
90% CI-floor = +0.294. Thin samples penalized.
Global 84.2 / cohort 79. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
