{"title":"Best Transformation Movies","theme":"transformation","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/transformation","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":35,"listedFilms":28,"frames":2663,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"fog","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.59,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00336,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00093,"observedInFrames":51},{"element":"teeth","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.68,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00375,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0014,"observedInFrames":57},{"element":"plaid shirt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.52,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0054,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00215,"observedInFrames":82},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.07,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00658,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":100},{"element":"skin","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.79,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0054,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00301,"observedInFrames":82},{"element":"eyes","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.68,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00349,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00208,"observedInFrames":53}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"day","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2585,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.61},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3119,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.72},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.586,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.39},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5366,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.37},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2514,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.21}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.404,"ratio":0.89},{"hue":"blue","share":0.17,"ratio":0.98},{"hue":"red","share":0.163,"ratio":1.08},{"hue":"green","share":0.089,"ratio":1.47}],"meanSaturation":0.262,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.401,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"An American Werewolf in London","year":1981,"director":"John Landis","cinematographer":"Robert Paynter","exemplarScore":1.568,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/an-american-werewolf-in-london-1981"},{"rank":2,"title":"Wolf Man","year":2025,"director":"Leigh Whannell","cinematographer":"Stefan Duscio","exemplarScore":1.325,"framesIndexed":100,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/wolf-man-2025"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Fly","year":1986,"director":"David Cronenberg","cinematographer":"Mark Irwin","exemplarScore":1.271,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-fly-1986"},{"rank":4,"title":"Howl","year":2015,"director":"Paul Hyett","cinematographer":"Adam Biddle","exemplarScore":1.238,"framesIndexed":152,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/howl-2015"},{"rank":5,"title":"Oldboy","year":2003,"director":"Park Chan-wook","cinematographer":"Chung Chung-hoon","exemplarScore":1.092,"framesIndexed":67,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/oldboy-2003"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Hallow","year":2015,"director":"Corin Hardy","cinematographer":"Martijn van Broekhuizen","exemplarScore":1.092,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-hallow-2015"},{"rank":7,"title":"From Beyond","year":1986,"director":"Stuart Gordon","cinematographer":"Mac Ahlberg","exemplarScore":1.08,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/from-beyond-1986"},{"rank":8,"title":"Hotel Transylvania: Transformania","year":2022,"director":"Derek Drymon","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":0.946,"framesIndexed":79,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/hotel-transylvania-transformania-2022"},{"rank":9,"title":"The Brood","year":1979,"director":"David Cronenberg","cinematographer":"Mark Irwin","exemplarScore":0.92,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-brood-1979"},{"rank":10,"title":"Lost Highway","year":1997,"director":"David Lynch","cinematographer":"Peter Deming","exemplarScore":0.884,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/lost-highway-1997"}],"outlier":{"title":"Penelope","year":2007,"exemplarScore":0.035,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}