Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s
Village of the Damned
Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
One morning the English village of Midwich falls unconscious — people, livestock and birds alike — inside a boundary the army can map but not explain, and everyone wakes hours later apparently unharmed. Weeks later every woman in Midwich capable of bearing a child is pregnant, and the children born share platinum hair, luminous eyes, rapid growth and a single collective mind. Professor Gordon Zellaby, whose wife Anthea has borne their leader David, wins permission to educate the group while the military presses for a decision, and it emerges that the children can compel adults to act against their will. Wolf Rilla's black-and-white British science-fiction film adapts John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos.
Village of the Damned is a 1960 horror and science-fiction film. It runs 1h 17m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 130 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 130 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Village of the Damned lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 130.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
