Is The Stuff actually good?

The Stuff sits in the 42.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 42.3% of them.

How does The Stuff compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Stuff lands in the 39.9% 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 Stuff's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Stuff's score.

1985

global pct

42.3

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

The Stuff

Name: The Stuff
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1985

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

42.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

39.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

30.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

When a mysterious, addictively delicious white substance is discovered bubbling from the ground and marketed as a wildly popular dessert called The Stuff, an industrial saboteur is hired by rival food companies to uncover its origins. He teams up with a young boy who saw the goo move on its own and a former FDA official, gradually realizing the product is consuming its consumers from the inside out.

The Stuff (1985) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, horror and science-fiction genres.

160 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 161 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.