black and white poster design — Tilted red banner with stacked blackletter title over pale face

A painterly horror poster sets a ghostly pale face and skeletal hands against a pitch-black void, topped by a red banner in the upper right. In the upper-right corner, a tilted rectangle of saturated red carries a black "TITLE" in heavy gothic blackletter, with a small word set above the larger word. Beneath the title inside the banner, a small credit line reads "DIRECTED BY" followed by a "DIRECTOR NAME" in spaced capitals. On the left side, the gaunt profile of an adult woman's face presses in from the edge, her features rendered in chalky white and blue-gray paint. Her eye is a dark hollow socket, and dark curly hair coils above her forehead in the upper-left corner. At the center, the pale hands of an adult woman cradle a human skull, their long fingers tipped with bright red nail polish. The skull's empty eye socket yawns black at the middle of the frame, its jaw and teeth half-dissolved into shadow. On the right side, the second hand wraps around the skull's dome, a red-painted fingertip touching its temple. In the lower-right corner, a thin bracelet glints at the wrist of the lower hand. Across the bottom, a soft swell of pale fabric suggests a shoulder fading into darkness. Visible brushstrokes streak the white paint of the face, giving it a rough, impasto texture. The red banner hangs at a slight diagonal, its lower edge torn and uneven. Small flecks of red echo in the skull's teeth, linking the hands to the banner. The lighting is theatrical and carve-like, with a cold key light raking the faces from the upper left so the white paint glows against the surrounding black, while red accents punctuate the gloom. The palette is near-monochrome blue-gray and bone white on black, with only the banner and the nail polish in blood red. Overall the poster's diagonal embrace of face and skull, crowned by the stark red banner, sustains a morbid, operatic mood of death and decadence.