The Ritual (2017)
Directed by David Bruckner · Cinematography by Andrew Shulkind
TV-MA94 min50 frames
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What is The Ritual about?
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
The Ritual is a 2017 British supernatural psychological folk horror film directed by David Bruckner and written by Joe Barton. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Adam Nevill, the film stars Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton as four friends on a hiking trip through a Swedish old-growth forest, where they encounter an ancient evil presence.
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What does the cinematography of The Ritual look like?
Across 50 sampled frames, The Ritual builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with wide compositions (28%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Andrew Shulkind keeps 48% of it in low-key light. 50% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Ritual?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Ritual (2017) are #2d312f, #4c524d, #101110, #6e736e, #19262d, #908b77 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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