Is The Strangers actually good?

The Strangers sits in the 18.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 18.6% of them.

How does The Strangers compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, The Strangers lands in the 20.3% 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 Strangers's score based on?

685 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Strangers's score.

2008

global pct

18.6

Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s

The Strangers

Name: The Strangers
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 2008

Scored from 685 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

18.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

20.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

3.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

685 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young couple, Kristen and James, retreat to a remote vacation home after a wedding reception, hoping to work through a strained moment in their relationship. Their night is shattered when three masked strangers begin terrorizing them, breaking in and stalking them through the house for no apparent reason beyond the victims being home.

Released in 2008, The Strangers is a horror, mystery and thriller film.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 11,178 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. 685 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 713 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is The Strangers (2008) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 685
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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