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ensemble poster design — Diagonal screaming-face cascade, chunky top title

L3156 · ensemble poster design — Diagonal screaming-face cascade, chunky top title. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L3156 · Diagonal screaming-face cascade, chunky top title

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L3156

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A pop-art horror movie poster shows a cascade of screaming adult women's faces in flat psychedelic colors, spiraling down a black void ringed by thin concentric circles. Across the top of the frame, the background is solid pitch black. In the upper-right area, a "TITLE" in chunky jagged acid-yellow block letters, rough-edged and hand-cut in appearance, tilts slightly as it announces two stacked words. On the left side of the frame, seven identical screaming faces descend diagonally from the top edge to the bottom center, each printed in a different flat color: lime green, cyan blue, hot orange, pale sky blue, lavender, deep orange, and finally bright yellow at the largest scale. Each face is an adult woman with windblown dark hair, eyes rolled upward in terror, mouth stretched wide in a scream. In the upper-left corner, the smallest green and blue faces are cropped by the frame edge, their mouths open mid-shriek. The faces grow progressively larger toward the bottom, the final yellow face filling the lower center with its mouth a black oval void. The halftone and posterized treatment flattens every face into graphic shapes of color and black shadow. Across the middle of the frame, thin concentric arcs in yellow, white, green, and crimson sweep in widening circles, centered somewhere below the frame's bottom edge, like ripples or a hypnotic vortex. In the middle-right area, the arcs pass behind the title letters, alternating colors as they widen. In the lower-left corner, a green arc curves past the largest face's hair. In the bottom-right corner, a thin crimson arc and a white arc sweep toward the edge. The concentric rings form a tunnel effect, pulling the eye down toward the biggest scream. The lighting is flat and graphic, with no natural light source; each face is lit evenly like a printed screen, shadows reduced to solid black shapes and highlights rendered as flat color. In the lower center, the yellow face's open mouth is pure black, the darkest point of the composition. The palette is aggressively synthetic: acid yellow, lime green, cyan, hot orange, and lavender against absolute black, with the thin rings adding white, green, and crimson accents. The style is 1960s pop-art screen-print, with misregistered color blocks, rough lettering, and posterized photography. The repetition of the single screaming face reads as an echo, amplifying the panic. The title's jagged yellow letters seem to vibrate against the black, reinforcing the graphic shock. Overall, the poster's descending spiral composition of multicolored screaming faces locked inside thin concentric rings, its palette of acid brights against pitch black, and its raw 1960s pop-art screen-print style deliver a mood of shrill, hypnotic hysteria.