Is The New York Ripper actually good?

The New York Ripper sits in the 48.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 48.5% of them.

How does The New York Ripper compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The New York Ripper lands in the 46.5% 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 New York Ripper's score based on?

135 calibrated reviewers stand behind The New York Ripper's score.

1982

global pct

48.5

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

The New York Ripper

Name: The New York Ripper
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1982

Scored from 135 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

48.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

46.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

45.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

135 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In New York City, a sadistic killer who taunts police with a Donald Duck-like voice is brutally murdering young women. A weary detective teams up with a psychoanalyst to profile the maniac, following clues through the city's seedy underbelly as the body count rises and suspicion falls on several disturbed suspects.

Released in 1982, The New York Ripper is a horror, mystery and thriller film.

135 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 136 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

Is The New York Ripper (1982) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 135
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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