horror poster design — Wide-tracked capitals, serif type with extreme close-up

A horror movie poster stacks two looming faces in near-total darkness, split by a band of white serif title text. The black background consumes the frame, so both faces appear to float in a void. In the upper half of the frame, an extreme close-up of an elderly adult man fills the space, his face cropped at the forehead and chin. His piercing pale blue eyes stare directly at the viewer from deep shadow, one eye catching a sharp pinpoint of light. Coarse gray stubble covers his jaw and cheeks, and deep wrinkles furrow his weathered skin. The left side of his face dissolves into pure blackness while the right side catches a dim amber glow. Across the middle of the poster, a title ("TITLE") is set in white serif capitals, a widely spaced small line above a much larger thin-stroked word, centered and overlapping both faces. In the lower half of the frame, a second face emerges: a smooth, bald adult mannequin head, its plastic skin pale and featureless. The mannequin's eyes glow a hot saturated red, two round orbs burning in the darkness like embers. Its small nose and faint mouth are barely modeled, giving it an unfinished, uncanny look. The mannequin head is cropped by the bottom edge of the frame, its ear visible on the right side. The lighting is brutally low-key, a faint warm source raking across the old man's right cheek while the mannequin's face is lit only by the red glow of its own eyes. Deep blacks swallow every edge, and the only true brightness is the white title lettering and the red eye-glow. The palette is almost entirely black and charcoal, with sickly gray-beige skin tones and the blood red of the mannequin's eyes as the single saturated accent. Fine grain textures the darkness, adding a gritty photographic feel. The two faces are stacked on a single vertical axis, the elderly adult man above and the mannequin below, their gazes both fixed on the viewer. The title band acts as a horizon line between the human menace above and the inhuman one below. The old man's weathered texture contrasts sharply with the mannequin's seamless plastic smoothness. Nothing else exists in the frame; the emptiness around the faces amplifies their confrontation. The composition balances human dread against uncanny artificiality, uniting void-black negative space, harsh chiaroscuro, and stark white typography in a mood of quiet, suffocating menace.