{"title":"Best Ritual Movies","theme":"ritual","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/ritual","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":17,"listedFilms":11,"frames":1379,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":4.23,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01347,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":104},{"element":"candle","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.2,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00466,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00146,"observedInFrames":36},{"element":"hoodie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.6,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00337,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0013,"observedInFrames":26},{"element":"teeth","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.4,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00337,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0014,"observedInFrames":26},{"element":"eyes","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00466,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00208,"observedInFrames":36},{"element":"doorway","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.15,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00389,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00181,"observedInFrames":30},{"element":"person","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.09,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00389,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00186,"observedInFrames":30},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.93,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00803,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":62}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"low_angle","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1051,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":1.99},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2828,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.36},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5279,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.34},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5286,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.25}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.518,"ratio":1.14},{"hue":"red","share":0.15,"ratio":0.99},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.111,"ratio":1.45},{"hue":"blue","share":0.103,"ratio":0.6}],"meanSaturation":0.257,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.393,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Bring Her Back","year":2025,"director":"Danny Philippou","cinematographer":"Aaron McLisky","exemplarScore":1.32,"framesIndexed":177,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/bring-her-back-2025"},{"rank":2,"title":"Ready or Not","year":2019,"director":"Tyler Gillett","cinematographer":"Brett Jutkiewicz","exemplarScore":1.165,"framesIndexed":74,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/ready-or-not-2019"},{"rank":3,"title":"Hellraiser","year":1987,"director":"Clive Barker","cinematographer":"Robin Vidgeon","exemplarScore":1.129,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hellraiser-1987"},{"rank":4,"title":"The House Of The Devil","year":2009,"director":"Ti West","cinematographer":"Eliot Rockett","exemplarScore":1.123,"framesIndexed":55,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-house-of-the-devil-2009"},{"rank":5,"title":"Hereditary","year":2018,"director":"Ari Aster","cinematographer":"Pawel Pogorzelski","exemplarScore":1.06,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hereditary-2018"},{"rank":6,"title":"Altered States","year":1980,"director":"Ken Russell","cinematographer":"Jordan Cronenweth","exemplarScore":0.951,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/altered-states-1980"},{"rank":7,"title":"A Dark Song","year":2016,"director":"Liam Gavin","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":0.839,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-dark-song-2016"},{"rank":8,"title":"Midsommar","year":2019,"director":"Ari Aster","cinematographer":"Pawel Pogorzelski","exemplarScore":0.69,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/midsommar-2019"}],"outlier":{"title":"The Wicker Man","year":null,"exemplarScore":0.127,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}