Is The Monster Squad actually good?

The Monster Squad sits in the 78.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 78.3% of them.

How does The Monster Squad compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Monster Squad lands in the 75.7% 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 Monster Squad's score based on?

180 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Monster Squad's score.

1987

global pct

78.3

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

The Monster Squad

Name: The Monster Squad
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1987

Scored from 180 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

78.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

75.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

180 calibrated reviewers

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 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 186 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Monster Squad (1987) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 180
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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