Is Waxwork actually good?

Waxwork sits in the 52.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 52.3% of them.

How does Waxwork compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Waxwork lands in the 49.9% 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 Waxwork's score based on?

114 calibrated reviewers stand behind Waxwork's score.

1988

global pct

52.3

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Waxwork

Name: Waxwork
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Released: 1988

Scored from 114 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

52.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

49.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

57.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

114 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Released in 1988, Waxwork is a comedy and horror film. Its comedy subtype is Dark Comedy.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 249 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 114 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 115 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.