The Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Directed by Teruo Ishii · Cinematography by Shigeru Akatsuka
99 min61 frames
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What is The Horrors of Malformed Men about?
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
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What does the cinematography of The Horrors of Malformed Men look like?
Across 61 sampled frames, The Horrors of Malformed Men builds its coverage from wide compositions (33% of the sample), with close-ups (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Shigeru Akatsuka keeps 43% of it in naturalistic light. 49% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of The Horrors of Malformed Men?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) are #322e2a, #13110e, #47372c, #291712, #d0cfca, #736a57 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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