Film · 1974 · Films · 1970s
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Two parallel scores from 897 z-qualifying reviewers and 928 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 2,406 peers in Films · 1970s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.337 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.59 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.65 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.282 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 897 / 928 |
Summary
Five friends traveling through rural Texas to check on a vandalized family grave stop at a remote farmhouse, where they fall prey to a deranged, cannibalistic family that includes the chainsaw-wielding killer Leatherface. As the group is picked off one by one, sole survivor Sally must fight to escape a nightmarish ordeal at the hands of her captors.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
897 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.337. DB2 raw mean = 7.65.
90% CI-floor = +0.282. Thin samples penalized.
Global 77.6 / cohort 71.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
