“Ratings,” you may ask (as well you should), “how do they work?”
Well, the simple answer is that the reviewers rate each movie on a scale of zero to four stars, zero being worst, four being best. Zero stars is represented by a skull icon (
) because it’s visually striking and appropriate to the horror genre.
Sounds simple enough, yeah? But we’ve got three reviewers working on this blog, and individual mileage always varies, so here’s a brief description of what each rating means to the individual reviewers:
| Jori | Lackey | Drudgeon | |
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Worth buying | Excellent | Need the recipe |
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Worth renting | Good | Seconds, please |
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If you’ve got nothing better to do | Decent | Tasty |
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Only if there’s nothing else on | Substandard | No, thank you |
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Don’t bother | DO NOT WANT | Fuck you |
Lackey adds: I differentiate between “how good a movie is” (indicated by the star rating) and “how much I actually liked it” (described in the text of the review). For example, I can’t stand The Blair Witch Project, but I do think it’s a good movie. This explains the occasional discrepancy between the rating of a movie and what I write about it.
