FrameThrower · Actors · Barbara Crampton
Barbara Crampton
8 films · 506 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1985–2023
Born 27 December 1958 · Levittown, New York, USA
Barbara Crampton is an American actress. She made her screen debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives (1983), and her film debut in 1984's Body Double before starring in the horror comedy Re-Animator (1985). Crampton grew up in Vermont, was raised Catholic, and spent summers while growing up traveling the country with the carnival, as her father was a carny. After taking up acting, Crampton starred in a variety of films including Chopping Mall (1986), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995), You're Next (2011), We Are Still Here (2015), and Little Sister (2016), becoming a fan favorite Scream Queen.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 506 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1985–2023
- Time Machine Award2016
How their films are shot
Measured across 506 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barbara takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Barbara takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 506 frames from Barbara Crampton's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.