Is The Wasp Woman actually good?

The Wasp Woman sits in the 12.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 12.6% of them.

How does The Wasp Woman compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1950s, The Wasp Woman lands in the 11.2% 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 Wasp Woman's score based on?

118 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Wasp Woman's score.

1959

global pct

12.6

Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s

The Wasp Woman

Name: The Wasp Woman
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1959

Scored from 118 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).

12.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

11.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1950s · 561 titles

3.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

118 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An aging cosmetics executive, desperate to preserve her youth and her failing company, funds a scientist's experiments with royal jelly from queen wasps. She uses herself as a test subject and the serum reverses her age, but the treatments come with horrific side effects that turn her into a murderous creature.

The Wasp Woman (1959) is a film IMDb files under the horror and science-fiction genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 114 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1950s films — 561 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 118 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 118 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.