Is Tremors actually good?

Tremors sits in the 92.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.5% of them.

How does Tremors compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Tremors lands in the 94.5% 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 Tremors's score based on?

336 calibrated reviewers stand behind Tremors's score.

1990

global pct

92.5

Film · 1990 · Films · 1990s

Tremors

Name: Tremors
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1990

Scored from 336 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

92.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

336 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Two handymen in the isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada discover that giant subterranean worm-like creatures are hunting the residents from below. With phone lines cut and roads blocked, the townspeople must figure out how to stay off the ground and outwit the burrowing predators before they pick off everyone.

Tremors (1990) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and horror genres.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,603 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 336 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 342 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.