{"title":"Best Werewolf Movies","theme":"werewolf","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/werewolf","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":27,"listedFilms":20,"frames":1977,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"fur","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":6.35,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00356,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00056,"observedInFrames":40},{"element":"fog","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":5.62,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00525,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00093,"observedInFrames":59},{"element":"snow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.73,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00739,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00198,"observedInFrames":83},{"element":"teeth","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.62,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00507,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0014,"observedInFrames":57},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.83,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00899,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":101},{"element":"mountain","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.69,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00392,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00145,"observedInFrames":44},{"element":"foliage","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.35,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0041,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":46},{"element":"plaid shirt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.12,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00454,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00215,"observedInFrames":51}],"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":0.2742,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4253,"ratio":0.64},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2823,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.65},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5955,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.52},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.6131,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.45}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.388,"ratio":0.86},{"hue":"blue","share":0.242,"ratio":1.4},{"hue":"red","share":0.141,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"green","share":0.073,"ratio":1.21}],"meanSaturation":0.241,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.374,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Dog Soldiers","year":2002,"director":"Neil Marshall","cinematographer":"Sam McCurdy","exemplarScore":1.381,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/dog-soldiers-2002"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Howling","year":1981,"director":"Joe Dante","cinematographer":"John Hora","exemplarScore":1.196,"framesIndexed":56,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-howling-1981"},{"rank":3,"title":"An American Werewolf in London","year":1981,"director":"John Landis","cinematographer":"Robert Paynter","exemplarScore":1.095,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/an-american-werewolf-in-london-1981"},{"rank":4,"title":"Van Helsing","year":2004,"director":"Stephen Sommers","cinematographer":"Allen Daviau","exemplarScore":0.984,"framesIndexed":157,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/van-helsing-2004"},{"rank":5,"title":"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2","year":2012,"director":"Bill Condon","cinematographer":"Guillermo Navarro","exemplarScore":0.975,"framesIndexed":56,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-twilight-saga-breaking-dawn-part-2-2012"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Cabin In The Woods","year":2012,"director":"Drew Goddard","cinematographer":"Peter Deming","exemplarScore":0.935,"framesIndexed":56,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-cabin-in-the-woods-2012"},{"rank":7,"title":"Wolf Man","year":2025,"director":"Leigh Whannell","cinematographer":"Stefan Duscio","exemplarScore":0.852,"framesIndexed":100,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/wolf-man-2025"},{"rank":8,"title":"Howl","year":2015,"director":"Paul Hyett","cinematographer":"Adam Biddle","exemplarScore":0.824,"framesIndexed":152,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/howl-2015"},{"rank":9,"title":"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban","year":2004,"director":"Alfonso Cuarón","cinematographer":"Michael Seresin","exemplarScore":0.713,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban-2004"},{"rank":10,"title":"Trick ‘R Treat","year":2007,"director":"Michael Dougherty","cinematographer":"Glen MacPherson","exemplarScore":0.714,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/trick-r-treat-2007"}],"outlier":{"title":"Ginger Snaps","year":2000,"exemplarScore":0.367,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}