horror poster design — Split Layout · Split Layout · Top Title

A horror movie poster splits a screaming woman and an axe-wielding killer around a massive tree trunk. At the top center, the red word "RATING" sits in distressed red serif capitals; beneath it, the English title "TITLE" stacks in three lines of huge grungy white serif capitals with the numeral "3" in red, the letters eroded and cracked. Below the title, the subtitle "TITLE" runs in smaller white serif capitals. On the right half, an extreme close-up of a young adult woman's face and shoulder fills the frame: her head is thrown back in a scream, her mouth open, blood smeared across her cheek and neck, her dark hair wild. On the left half, deep in the dark woods, a hulking deformed killer with a misshapen head lumbers forward gripping a fire axe, backlit by a distant orange fire. His face is a ruin of scar tissue, and his clothes are ragged and filthy. The axe's blade is notched and dark with old stains. His gait is heavy and relentless, each step shaking the ground. A colossal tree trunk with deeply furrowed bark runs vertically down the center, dividing the two halves. The bark is blackened on one side, as if by an old fire, and moss grows in the deep furrows. The trunk is wider than a man, ancient and immovable. Across the middle, the Chinese title "TITLE" spans the width in four huge red characters with a brush-like texture, overlapping the trunk. At the bottom center, the tagline "TAGLINE" stacks in four lines of white and red serif capitals, centered. Harsh orange firelight rakes across the scene from the left background, throwing the trunk into sharp relief and the woman's face into feverish highlight. The woman's throat is exposed, her pulse visible, and her scream seems to hang in the air. The killer's shadow stretches toward her across the leaf-strewn ground. The forest does not forgive, and it never forgets. Every tree has eyes, and every shadow has teeth. The trail ends here, where the trees grow thick and the light dies. The axe is raised, the scream is frozen, the night is endless. The overall composition traps the victim and the killer on either side of the ancient trunk beneath the monumental title, rendered in a palette of blood red, fire orange, bark brown and title white, in a gritty photorealistic backwoods-horror style that feels brutal, inescapable and soaked in terror.