Film · 2025 · Films · 2020s
The Monkey
Scored from 497 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Twin brothers discover a vintage wind-up toy monkey that triggers gruesome, random deaths whenever its key is turned. After a childhood tragedy, the estranged adult twins are forced to reunite when the cursed toy resurfaces and a fresh wave of bizarre killings tears through their lives. Based on the Stephen King short story, the film leans into pitch-black horror comedy as the brothers try to stop the monkey for good.
The Monkey is a 2025 horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 497 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 511 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 751 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Monkey 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 497.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
