HOPE
2026NEON · 156 MIN · 2026-09-09
HOPE
2026
ROT SCORE
SYNOPSIS
A fishing village called Hope Harbor gets a visitor that's definitely not from around here. The local police chief and his deputy try to hold the town together while a pack of trigger-happy hunters go after the creature themselves -- and quickly find out it's smarter, and a lot harder to kill, than they bargained for. From Na Hong-Jin, the director behind The Wailing, with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander along as things spiral out toward full cosmic-scale disaster.
Score Breakdown
GENRE SITES
| SOURCE | RAW SCORE | NORMALIZED / 100 |
|---|---|---|
| Bloody Disgusting | 3.5 / 5 | 70.0 |
| Dread Central | 4 / 5 | 80.0 |
| Daily Dead | 3.5 / 5 | 70.0 |
| Nightmare on Film Street | N/A | — |
| Certified Forgotten | N/A | — |
| JoBlo | N/A | — |
| GENRE SITES AVG | 73.3 | |
MAINSTREAM SOURCES
RT Critic + RT Audience are averaged together and count as 50% of this bucket. All other sources share the remaining 50% equally.
| SOURCE | RAW SCORE | NORMALIZED / 100 |
|---|---|---|
| RT Critic | 80% | 80.0 |
| RT Audience | 76% | 76.0 |
| Letterboxd | 3.3 / 5 | 66.0 |
| IMDb | 6.9 / 10 | 69.0 |
| Metacritic Critic | 66 / 100 | 66.0 |
| Metacritic User | 6.1 / 10 | 61.0 |
| Slash Film | 6.5 / 10 | 65.0 |
| IGN | N/A | — |
| The Film Stage | N/A | — |
| Collider | 8 / 10 | 80.0 |
| Roger Ebert | 3.5 / 4 | 87.5 |
| RT AVG (50% of bucket) | 78.0 | |
| MAINSTREAM AVG | 74.3 | |
FORMULA WEIGHTS
| SOURCE | NORMALIZED | BASE WT | ACTUAL WT | CONTRIB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satan's Boardroom | — | 10% | — | — |
| Genre Sites | 73.3 | 50% | 55.6%* | 40.7 |
| Mainstream Sites | 74.3 | 40% | 44.4%* | 33.0 |
| Broad Excellence Bonus | — | — | — | +2.8 |
| ROT SCORE | 100.0% | 77 | ||
* Satan's Boardroom was unavailable. Weight redistributed proportionally across available sources.
Bonus awarded for strong agreement across multiple buckets.