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Event Horizon (1997) colour palette

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson · Shot by Adrian Biddle

The main colours of Event Horizon (1997) are deep blue (#171928) and deep red (#281414), over a near-black base: a balanced, muted palette, measured across the film's frames.

Event Horizon (1997), shot by Adrian Biddle, runs muted and balanced, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and red. The single most common colour is near black (#0f0f10), covering 15.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

balanced

0.053 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.263 — more saturated than 55% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.32 — brighter than 2% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Event Horizon page →

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