Film · 1975 · Films · 1970s
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Scored from 459 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Newly engaged sweethearts Brad and Janet take refuge from a stormy night at an eerie castle, where they meet Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a flamboyant scientist hosting a gathering for his alien followers. As Frank unveils his muscle-bound creation Rocky, the straitlaced couple is drawn into a wild night of seduction, song, and science-fiction mayhem.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, horror and musical genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 459 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 492 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 Rocky Horror Picture Show 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 459.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
