FrameThrower · Actors · Vinessa Shaw
Vinessa Shaw
5 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1993–2013
Born 19 July 1976 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well-known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have Eyes, as well as the 2008 romance film Two Lovers, in which she starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 320 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vinessa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Vinessa takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 320 frames from Vinessa Shaw's 5 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.