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ensemble poster design — Four anguished faces above cracked stone title

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L2936 · Four anguished faces above cracked stone title

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A painterly movie poster floats four anguished faces in a crowded, overlapping cluster against a black void spattered with blood. The background is near-total black, broken only by drifting red droplets and faint smoky texture. In the upper-left corner, small red specks of blood hang suspended in the darkness. At the center-top of the frame, an elderly bald man with a white-stubbled jaw and a smear of blood across his scalp tilts his face upward and to the right, his mouth open as if crying out. On the left side of the frame, an adult shaved-headed man stares forward with hollow, shadowed eyes, a broad streak of red blood painted across his temple and cheek. In the upper-right corner, an adult man with curly dark hair and a short beard looks downward with a grim, wounded expression, blood marking his forehead. At the center-bottom of the cluster, an adult woman with dark curly hair turns her face up toward the viewer, her mouth slightly open in fear, her eyes wide and glistening. The faces overlap with no visible bodies, each rendered in rough, visible brushstrokes that blur and dissolve their edges into the dark. Across the lower third of the frame, the title appears as "TITLE" in very large cracked stone-textured serif capitals, the letters weathered and split like ancient carving, glowing pale against the black. The type stretches nearly edge to edge, its baseline sitting just above the bottom margin. No credits, taglines, or other text appear anywhere on the poster. In the bottom-left and bottom-right corners, the black ground fades into soft grain, holding the pale title in place. The lighting is stark and uneven, a cold white source from above that strikes the crowns of the heads and the planes of the cheekbones while drowning the eye sockets and the gaps between faces in deep shadow; the blood catches a wet, dark-red sheen where the light hits it. A gritty film-grain texture covers everything, thickening the blacks and softening the edges. The color palette is grim and narrow: char black, dried-blood crimson, ashen flesh, and the bone-pale gray of the title. The illustration style is raw and expressionistic, closer to a charcoal and oil sketch than to polished photography. Overall, the composition presses the four bleeding faces together in a single suffocating mass above the monumental cracked title, uniting a raw expressionist style with a palette of black, blood, and ash that feels brutal and steeped in grief.