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horror poster design — Oversized title, split layout, bottom title

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L0539 · Oversized title, split layout, bottom title

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A photorealistic horror movie poster centers on a gleaming knife held upright, splitting the frame between a weathered hockey mask and an adult woman's half-lit face. The background is absolute black, swallowing the edges of the frame and leaving only the central objects lit. At the center of the frame, a long knife stands perfectly vertical: a black cylindrical handle at the top, a silver guard, and a polished steel blade pointing straight down. The blade's razor edge catches a cold white highlight along its full length, and its mirror surface reflects a faint blue glow. On the left side of the frame, a tan leather-textured hockey mask with dark ventilation holes emerges from the darkness, its curved surface lit by a soft blue-white rim light. The mask's large dark eye hole is a void of pure black, and its pitted, aged surface shows scratches and wear. On the right side of the frame, half of an adult woman's face floats in shadow: dark hair, a softly lit cheek, and full red lips, her features half-dissolved into the black. Where her eye should be, a brilliant white-blue starburst of light explodes, its rays flaring across the darkness like a supernatural glare. At the bottom of the blade, the steel tip touches a spreading pool of glossy crimson blood, its irregular splatter shape radiating across the black. Across the lower portion of the frame, a large "TITLE" in jagged red horror lettering with dripping edges sprawls above a smaller subtitle line in the same blood-red style. In the lower-left corner, the blood pool's farthest tendrils reach toward the frame's edge. In the upper-left corner, a faint blue halo rims the hockey mask, separating it from the black void. In the upper-right corner, darkness presses in around the adult woman's glowing eye-flare, her hair strands barely visible. Along the right edge, the red of her lips is the only warm color in the upper half of the poster. The lighting is stark and theatrical: a single cold blue-white source from the front-left sculpts the knife and mask in hard specular highlights, while the eye-starburst burns as its own light source, and everything else collapses into impenetrable black shadow. The knife's handle is matte black with a thin silver collar, its top catching a small white gleam. Behind the blade, the mask and the adult woman's face never touch; the steel divides them like a wall. The blood's surface is wet and reflective, doubling the blade's tip in a dark red mirror. At the very bottom edge, the red title nearly touches the frame, its dripping letters bleeding toward the border. Overall, the composition balances the vertical steel blade as a central axis between mask and face in a slick photorealistic horror style, the palette of black, icy blue-white, and blood red building a mood of cold, ritualistic dread.