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horror poster design — Diagonal claw slashes over jagged red title

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L0566 · Diagonal claw slashes over jagged red title

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L0566

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A painted horror movie poster shows a screaming adult woman's glossy red mouth bursting through long claw-slash tears in an amber-brown paper-like surface, above jagged blood-red title lettering. At the upper-right of center, the largest tear reveals her open mouth stretched wide in a scream, full red lips parted to show white upper teeth and a dark open throat. Her chin, smooth and pale, curves below into the tear's lower edge. The curve of her nose and one nostril emerge from the torn edge just above, her skin pale against the warm brown. To the left of the mouth, four long metallic claws like polished animal talons poke through parallel slashes, their tips catching bright highlights. A fifth smaller claw tip breaks through lower in the cluster. From the upper area, the tears run diagonally down toward the center, their curled paper edges casting small shadows into black gaps. Tiny curled shreds of the surface peel back along the longest tear. Around the tears, the amber surface glows warmly, its texture like scorched parchment, darkening to deep brown and then to solid black toward the bottom. From the corners, soft vignetting closes in, focusing all attention on the screaming mouth. The black gaps between tears suggest an unseen darkness pressing from behind. The painted style is smooth and airbrushed, with hyperreal detail in the lips and claws. Across the lower third, the title "TITLE" looms in huge jagged blood-red letters with rough dripping edges, a smaller introductory word tucked at the upper left of the wordmark. The letterforms lean and drip like fresh paint. The red letters bleed slightly into the black background. The lighting is warm and theatrical, with a strong golden key from above-front igniting the amber surface, deep shadows pooling inside the tears, hot specular highlights on the lips and claw tips, and the lower half of the poster sinking into velvety darkness. Overall, the diagonal slash composition balances the screaming mouth against the raking claws and the heavy title below, in an amber-and-blood-red palette rendered in airbrushed pulp-horror style, with a feral nightmare-attack mood.