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#L0673
horror poster design — Multi-line title, close-up portrait with single figure
L0673 · horror poster design — Multi-line title, close-up portrait with single figure. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

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- L0673
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A hand-painted 1930s horror poster sets a terrified adult woman's huge face and a green-faced adult man's glare above a lamplit old house, all on a pitch-black field. In the upper-right corner, the adult woman's enormous face glows in pale yellow and cream, her eyes wide and staring, her red mouth open in a gasp. Her eyebrows lift high, and fine lines of alarm crease her forehead. Small white highlights dot the corners of her staring eyes. Her golden hair streams upward and to the left, painted in flowing orange and yellow strokes against the black. A dark shadow, like a hand or a smear, crosses the bridge of her nose. On the left side of the frame, the "TITLE" rises in four lines of rough acid-green brush capitals, the first line in a smaller script-like hand. The letters are uneven and scratchy, stacked from the upper left down toward the middle. In the upper-left corner, the first script-like line of the title curls near the frame's edge. At the center of the frame, the adult woman's chin and the title's lowest line nearly meet across the black gap. Below the woman's face, the black field opens into empty darkness across the middle of the frame. In the bottom-left corner, an adult man's stern face emerges from shadow, his skin painted sickly green, one eye glaring toward the right under a dark hat brim. Beneath his chin, an old house with glowing amber windows and blue-paned glass sits among dark foliage. One upper window burns yellow, suggesting a lit room inside. Dark green foliage masses around the house's foundation, painted in rough hurried strokes. In the bottom-right corner, the black field continues, with faint green strokes hinting at mist or undergrowth at the very edge. Across the lower third, blue and green painted waves of mist curl beneath the house. The lighting is stark and theatrical: the adult woman's face blazes as though lit from within, while the man's green face is half-swallowed by the shadow of his hat. The palette clashes acid green, blood red, and lamp amber against the engulfing black, with the adult woman's cream skin the brightest note. Overall, the composition floats two fearful adult faces and the haunted house in a void of black, the scratchy green title binding them into a mood of vintage haunted-house dread.