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horror poster design — Multi-line title with high angle, diagonal composition

L2522 · horror poster design — Multi-line title with high angle, diagonal composition. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L2522 · Multi-line title with high angle, diagonal composition

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L2522

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A photographic horror-comedy movie poster shows a birthday cake from directly above, its red icing message pierced by a plunging kitchen knife. The cake is a white rectangular sheet cake filling nearly the whole frame, its surface smooth off-white frosting with a faint spatula texture. Around all four edges, a scalloped border of dark chocolate-brown piping runs in tight rosettes. At the very top edge of the frame, the chocolate piping forms a continuous scalloped line. On the left side of the frame, the white frosting meets the chocolate border in a clean straight seam. In the upper-left corner of the cake, a glossy dark-red frosting rose sits, and a second rose mirrors it in the upper-right corner. In the lower-left corner, a third rose rests, and a fourth rose mirrors it in the lower-right corner. Across the center of the cake, three lines of hand-piped letters in glossy blood-red icing read the "TITLE" placeholder, the letters tall, irregular, and dripping at their terminals like wet paint. The red icing strokes are thick and uneven, with small blobs pooling where the piping bag paused. In the middle of the frame, the three red lines stack with generous spacing between them. From the right edge of the frame, a large kitchen knife with a black riveted handle plunges diagonally down into the cake, its steel blade piercing the final letter of the middle line. The blade's polished steel reflects a pale blue eye and part of a woman's face, warped by the metal's curve. Around the puncture, the red icing is smeared and spattered outward like a bloodstain, with fine droplets flung across the white frosting. The knife's black handle disappears past the right margin, its dark scales catching a hard highlight. At the bottom edge of the frame, only white frosting and the chocolate border appear, keeping the lower band calm and empty. No other text, tagline, credit block, or object appears anywhere in the composition. The lighting is soft and even from above, as if from a large studio softbox, giving the icing a wet sheen and the steel blade a clean gradient reflection, with only a faint shadow falling from the knife onto the cake. Overall, the poster centers its dripping red message on an expanse of white frosting framed by chocolate piping, a stark palette of white, blood red, and dark brown with a flash of steel, a clean studio still-life photography style, and a playful, gleeful, darkly comic mood.