{"title":"Best Nightmare Movies","theme":"nightmare","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/nightmare","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":50,"listedFilms":36,"frames":3428,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"blonde hair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.63,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00351,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00133,"observedInFrames":67},{"element":"eyes","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.55,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00529,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00208,"observedInFrames":101},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.39,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00718,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":137},{"element":"child","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.26,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00645,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00285,"observedInFrames":123},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00933,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":178},{"element":"sweater","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.13,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00409,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00192,"observedInFrames":78},{"element":"pillow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.11,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00482,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00228,"observedInFrames":92},{"element":"doorway","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.03,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00367,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00181,"observedInFrames":70}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3053,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.47},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3056,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.7},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3022,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.71},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5478,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.39},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5533,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.31}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.439,"ratio":0.97},{"hue":"blue","share":0.188,"ratio":1.08},{"hue":"red","share":0.186,"ratio":1.23},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.062,"ratio":0.82}],"meanSaturation":0.231,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.395,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Before I Wake","year":2016,"director":"Mike Flanagan","cinematographer":"Michael Fimognari","exemplarScore":1.723,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/before-i-wake-2016"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Babadook","year":2014,"director":"Jennifer Kent","cinematographer":"Radek Ładczuk","exemplarScore":1.6,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-babadook-2014"},{"rank":3,"title":"mother!","year":2017,"director":"Darren Aronofsky","cinematographer":"Matthew Libatique","exemplarScore":1.443,"framesIndexed":188,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mother-2017"},{"rank":4,"title":"A Nightmare On Elm Street","year":1984,"director":"Wes Craven","cinematographer":"Jacques Haitkin","exemplarScore":1.406,"framesIndexed":55,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984"},{"rank":5,"title":"The Hole in the Ground","year":2019,"director":"Lee Cronin","cinematographer":"Tom Comerford","exemplarScore":1.189,"framesIndexed":51,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-hole-in-the-ground-2019"},{"rank":6,"title":"New Nightmare","year":1994,"director":"Wes Craven","cinematographer":"Mark Irwin","exemplarScore":1.144,"framesIndexed":58,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/new-nightmare-1994"},{"rank":7,"title":"Hour of the Wolf","year":1968,"director":"Ingmar Bergman","cinematographer":"Sven Nykvist","exemplarScore":1.153,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hour-of-the-wolf-1968"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Ring Two","year":2005,"director":"Hideo Nakata","cinematographer":"Gabriel Beristain","exemplarScore":1.101,"framesIndexed":182,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-ring-two-2005"},{"rank":9,"title":"Eraserhead","year":1977,"director":"David Lynch","cinematographer":"Herbert Cardwell","exemplarScore":1.013,"framesIndexed":59,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/eraserhead-1977"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Lighthouse","year":2019,"director":"Robert Eggers","cinematographer":"Jarin Blaschke","exemplarScore":0.974,"framesIndexed":58,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-lighthouse-2019"}],"outlier":{"title":"Wild Strawberries","year":1957,"exemplarScore":0.266,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}