Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s
The Omen
Scored from 388 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Robert Thorn, an American diplomat posted to London, agrees in a Rome hospital to replace his stillborn son with an orphaned newborn and never tells his wife Katherine what he has done. The boy, Damien, grows into a healthy five-year-old, but his birthday party ends with the nanny hanging herself in front of the guests, and a priest begins intercepting Thorn with warnings about the child's parentage. As a photographer named Jennings notices strange defects in his pictures of people close to the family, Thorn is pushed to find out where the baby he accepted actually came from. Richard Donner's supernatural horror film is scored by Jerry Goldsmith.
The Omen (1976) is a film IMDb files under the horror and mystery genres. The runtime is 111 minutes. Its certificate is R. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 388 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 398 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Omen 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 388.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
