Is Village of the Damned actually good?

Village of the Damned sits in the 94.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 94.9% of them.

How does Village of the Damned compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1960s, Village of the Damned lands in the 94.1% 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 Village of the Damned's score based on?

130 calibrated reviewers stand behind Village of the Damned's score.

1960

global pct

94.9

Film · 1960 · Films · 1960s

Village of the Damned

Name: Village of the Damned
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Released: 1960

Scored from 130 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).

94.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.1%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles

99.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

130 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the English village of Midwich, every resident suddenly falls unconscious for several hours. Months later, all women of childbearing age are mysteriously pregnant, and the children they bear grow rapidly, share a cold collective intelligence, and possess unsettling mind-control powers. A local scientist must decide how to confront the threat the children pose to humanity.

Village of the Damned is a 1960 horror and science-fiction film.

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 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 130 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Village of the Damned (1960) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1960s · 1,929 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 130
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1960s

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