{"title":"Best Sci-fi Horror Movies","theme":"sci-fi horror","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/sci-fi-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. 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":13,"listedFilms":10,"frames":984,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"metal wall","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":18.15,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00701,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00039,"observedInFrames":39},{"element":"teeth","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.21,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00449,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0014,"observedInFrames":25},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.57,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00773,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":43},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.24,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00934,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":52},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.98,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00629,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":35},{"element":"child","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.7,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00485,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00285,"observedInFrames":27},{"element":"hand","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.61,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00737,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00457,"observedInFrames":41}],"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":0.1149,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":2.17},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.251,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.59},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"interior_indeterminate","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1077,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0706,"ratio":1.53},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3143,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.52},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2889,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.66}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.456,"ratio":1},{"hue":"blue","share":0.163,"ratio":0.94},{"hue":"red","share":0.14,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.11,"ratio":1.96}],"meanSaturation":0.261,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.38,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Alien 3","year":1992,"director":"David Fincher","cinematographer":"Alex Thomson","exemplarScore":1.776,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-3-1992"},{"rank":2,"title":"Alien: Resurrection","year":1997,"director":"Jean-Pierre Jeunet","cinematographer":"Darius Khondji","exemplarScore":1.705,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-resurrection-1997"},{"rank":3,"title":"Alien: Romulus","year":2024,"director":"Fede Álvarez","cinematographer":"Galo Olivares","exemplarScore":1.624,"framesIndexed":84,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-romulus-2024"},{"rank":4,"title":"Aliens","year":1986,"director":"James Cameron","cinematographer":"Adrian Biddle","exemplarScore":1.356,"framesIndexed":68,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/aliens-1986"},{"rank":5,"title":"Alien: Covenant","year":2017,"director":"Ridley Scott","cinematographer":"Dariusz Wolski","exemplarScore":1.209,"framesIndexed":89,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/alien-covenant-2017"},{"rank":6,"title":"Prometheus","year":2012,"director":"Ridley Scott","cinematographer":"Dariusz Wolski","exemplarScore":1.043,"framesIndexed":81,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/prometheus-2012"},{"rank":7,"title":"No One Will Save You","year":2023,"director":"Brian Duffield","cinematographer":"Aaron Morton","exemplarScore":0.639,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/no-one-will-save-you-2023"},{"rank":8,"title":"Afraid","year":2024,"director":"Chris Weitz","cinematographer":"Javier Aguirresarobe","exemplarScore":0.38,"framesIndexed":114,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/afraid-2024"}],"outlier":{"title":"Dark Skies","year":2013,"exemplarScore":0.342,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}