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Friday the 13th poster

Friday the 13th (1980) colour palette

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham · Shot by Barry Abrams

Friday the 13th (1980), shot by Barry Abrams, runs muted and warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#34332c), covering 12.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.596 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.243 — more saturated than 46% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.373 — brighter than 23% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the Friday the 13th page →

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