{"title":"Best Psychological Horror Movies","theme":"psychological horror","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/psychological-horror","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. 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