Internet Movie Database. | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
A beautiful, bright Friday night. For you and your friends, it’s also known by another name – “Horror Movie” night. This time though, you’ve all run out of horror movie suggestions.
what to watch?
Let’s surf the internet.
Thanks to Google, some new titles have emerged. Still no one knows whether those movies are good and thrilling or not. All your hard work on Friday is for this moment. Election is important.
Your friend sitting cross-legged on the floor looks at you and asks, “Yo, what’s the IMDB score for those?”
Internet Movie Database
The acronym IMDb finds itself comfortably established in the film world. Many people consider it as a standard of legitimacy, referring to the website along with its rating score to get information about movies.
IMDb webpage. | Photo Credit: Freepik
As the name suggests, IMDb is an online database of information about all things movies, videos, TV shows, podcasts, and more. It also contains ample information about various personalities from the film industry. Now this is not a unique feature of IMDb. There are several online databases such as IMDb that provide these details. IMDb gets such a popular name in the film world because its size is very large. With our film and video history, one can only imagine the ocean of information.
With over 25 million titles, IMDb is the world’s largest and most comprehensive online database for all things movie-related.
imdb
Organizes huge data in such a way that it is useful to us. It’s like a library!
Iconic IMDb Rating
Even if people don’t use the IMDb website, IMDb’s presence is pervasive through its ratings. Can you even count the number of times you checked a movie’s IMDb rating on Google before watching it? Absolutely.
A movie’s rating on IMDb is an average of user ratings for that movie on the website. Since over 80 million users are part of IMDb, the overall average score is considered a good guide/starting point for our evaluation of that movie. An IMDb user can rate a movie on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest score. There is no “0”; Even the worst score for a worst movie is just a 1.
An IMDb user can rate a movie on a scale of 1 to 10 Photo Credit: Getty Images/ISTOCKPHOTO
Still, movies are not the answer to being ranked and you can always ignore these ratings. Ratings are also sometimes misused to not accurately reflect the quality of the film. For example, all it takes is hating on the bandwagon to completely ruin the ratings. But if you need a fun incentive to help you choose between movies, IMDb ratings are your friend.
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are other popular review aggregator websites for films that provide aggregate scores for films like IMDb.
audience spectrum
IMDb is a platform for people who watch and talk about movies. The variety of opinions, conversations, reviews and analyzes provided by audiences enriches the database as it becomes a place to study the perception and larger interpretation of film culture. Whether dislike or love, IMDb highlights the ebb and flow of people’s emotions.
Lists galore!
IMDb also uses its truckloads of data and compiles them to provide top 10 lists for movies and TV shows, lists of top celebrities, fan favorites, etc.
For your next horror movie night, you can check out IMDb’s list of popular horror movies and see what’s trending in the horror genre!
Some IMDb dataset elements
poster
rating
Style
mold
crew
related information
parent information
plot summary
general knowledge
personal biography
published – January 19, 2026 11:00 AM IST