Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s
The Monster Squad
Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
A group of monster-obsessed kids in a small American town discover that Count Dracula has assembled a team of classic Universal monsters, including the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Gill-Man, and Frankenstein's monster, to seize a mystical amulet that controls the balance between good and evil. With the help of a reluctant Frankenstein's monster, the kids race to perform an ancient ritual before midnight to send the creatures into limbo.
The Monster Squad is a 1987 action, comedy and fantasy film. Inside comedy it is classed as Action Comedy.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 180 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 186 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 Monster Squad 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 180.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
