horror poster design — Single Figure, Frame Within Frame, Oversized Title

An illustrated horror movie poster of a grinning skeletal ghoul in a tattered hooded robe, leaning over a ticket booth, set against a pitch-black background. Across the top of the frame, a large uppercase "TITLE" in jagged white horror lettering with a red drop shadow drips like melting wax. Beneath the title, a swagged crimson theater curtain with a heavy gold fringe valance drapes across the upper third. In the center, the ghoul's skull leans forward from the shadows, one eye socket a bulging white eyeball with a spiraling pupil, the other a dark hollow. Stringy gray hair escapes from beneath its ragged olive-burlap hood. Its exposed ribcage and collarbones show beneath the open robe. Pinned to its chest, a round silver vent-like medallion with horizontal slats gleams. Below the medallion, a small framed sign with white type reads "ADMISSION," followed by two bulleted lines, "ADULTS" and "CHILDREN." In the lower-center, its bony claw hand drapes over the brass rail of the ticket booth, clutching two pink paper tickets stamped "ADMIT 1." On the left side, a gray rat with bright eyes peers out from the robe's folds. On the right side, a large spider hangs in a sprawling silvery web that stretches to the frame's edge. A second, smaller web fills the upper-left corner behind the curtain. Along the bottom edge, the booth's riveted metal counter runs the full width of the frame. The ghoul's teeth are bared in a wide, manic grin. Cracks and stains texture the skull's bone surface. Fine cobweb strands catch the light across the ghoul's shoulder. The gold fringe casts striped shadows across the black void behind the skull. A faint greenish patina stains the medallion's rim. The lighting is theatrical and airbrushed, with a warm spotlight from the upper-left raking across the skull and the gold fringe, while the ticket area glows with a sickly pale light against the surrounding blackness. Deep shadows pool inside the hood and beneath the booth rail. The pink tickets provide the only small punches of bright color in the lower half. Overall, the poster balances the looming ghoul in the center against the framing curtain above and the booth rail below, pairing a blood-red, bone-white, and pitch-black palette with a lurid airbrushed comic-illustration style and a mood of gleeful macabre menace.