American Mary (2012)

Directed by Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska · Cinematography by Brian Pearson

R103 min51 frames

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What is American Mary about?

A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.

American Mary is a 2012 Canadian body horror film written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska and starring Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, and Tristan Risk. Isabelle plays a destitute medical student who begins taking clients from the extreme body modification community to solve her financial troubles.

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What does the cinematography of American Mary look like?

Across 47 sampled frames, American Mary builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (17%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Brian Pearson keeps 81% of it in soft, low-key light. 79% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 74% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of American Mary?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of American Mary (2012) are #120c0d, #271512, #30292a, #4c3633, #323549, #8b726a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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