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#L0149
portrait poster design — Rotated type, stacked type with multi-line title
L0149 · portrait poster design — Rotated type, stacked type with multi-line title. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

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A horror movie poster centers on a middle-aged adult East Asian man gripping a large meat cleaver, set against a deep blood-red wall streaked with vertical drips and covered in coarse film grain. In the upper third of the frame, his face looms large: short black hair, thick black-rimmed glasses, and eyes fixed on the viewer with an intense, menacing stare. His lips are pressed into a tight grimace and his jaw is set, giving his expression a barely contained aggression. Warm, harsh light rakes across his face from the upper left, burning his skin to a hot yellow-orange and throwing one lens of his glasses into a white glare. He wears a wrinkled short-sleeved white shirt stained and darkened, with a near-black apron tied over it, its surface smeared with reddish-brown stains. On the right side of the frame, his shoulder dissolves into the red darkness, his body angled forward as though lunging out of the poster. Across the middle-right of the composition, a "TITLE" is painted in thick white brush strokes, stacked in three ragged diagonal lines. The letters have a dry-brush texture with splattered, uneven edges, slanting upward from left to right. On the left edge of the frame, white paint splatters dot the red background, a few thin drips trailing downward. In the lower center, his right hand clenches the wooden handle of a broad Chinese-style cleaver, knuckles white with tension. The cleaver's wide rectangular blade sweeps diagonally from the bottom-left toward the center, its steel face streaked with yellow-orange highlights and dark spatter. Near the bottom edge, a cluster of yellow-white droplets hangs frozen mid-splash against the black background below the blade. In the lower-right corner, the frame sinks into near-black shadow, where only faint red smudges and a ghost of a checkered pattern remain visible. Along the bottom-left, small pale specks scatter like chips of plaster caught in the light. Across the lower third, deep shadows pool beneath his arm and around the cleaver, anchoring the figure in darkness. The lighting is harsh and theatrical: a single hot source from the upper left blows out the highlights on his forehead and cheek while the right side and bottom of the poster drown in muddy crimson and black. The background wall shifts from saturated scarlet at the top to a scorched, almost blackened red near the bottom. The palette is built on violent reds and feverish oranges, cut through by the stark white of the title lettering and the splatter marks. A heavy grain and scratched texture covers the entire surface, giving the poster a gritty, weathered pulp feel. Overall the composition is a confrontational, claustrophobic portrait: one menacing figure fills the frame in red and black, the brush-stroke title and blood-like spatter completing an atmosphere of pulp-horror menace.