Film · 1968 · Films · 1960s
Witchfinder General
Scored from 161 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
During the English Civil War, self-appointed witch hunter Matthew Hopkins travels the countryside extracting confessions and executions for profit under the guise of religious authority. When he targets a young woman in a Suffolk village, her soldier fiance vows brutal vengeance against Hopkins and his sadistic assistant.
Witchfinder General is a 1968 drama and horror film.
The calibrated figure is built from 161 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 162 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 of them.
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 Witchfinder General 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 161.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
