Is Urban Legend actually good?

Urban Legend sits in the 21.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 21.5% of them.

How does Urban Legend compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Urban Legend lands in the 20.1% 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 Urban Legend's score based on?

328 calibrated reviewers stand behind Urban Legend's score.

1998

global pct

21.5

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

Urban Legend

Name: Urban Legend
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1998

Scored from 328 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

21.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

20.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

5.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

328 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At a remote New England college, a series of grisly murders mimics classic urban legends, terrorizing a group of students who suspect a killer is using the campfire tales as a blueprint. As the body count rises, a journalism student and her friends race to uncover who is behind the killings before they become the next cautionary tale.

Released in 1998, Urban Legend is a horror, mystery and thriller film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 328 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 337 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.