sans-serif typography poster — Diagonal composition, with bottom title and sans-serif type

A photographic movie poster is slashed diagonally by a gleaming steel dagger, its reflective blade carrying two portraits and a dripping red circular emblem, above a white "TITLE" on a near-black background. Behind the blade, the background is deep black fading to dark charcoal, with faint red embers and drifting sparks glowing at the lower-right corner, a thin wisp of smoke curling upward through the sparks. The dagger blade runs from the upper-right corner to the lower-left, its polished steel surface acting as a mirror, fine scratches and smudges catching the light in thin lines. The steel has a cold blue-gray tint, darker along the flat and brilliant along the cutting edge. On the upper-left portion of the blade, the reflection shows a blurred pale theatrical mask with a wide painted grin, arched eyebrows, and a black pointed mustache and goatee, worn by an unseen adult figure. The mask's edges dissolve into the surrounding darkness, giving it a ghostly, out-of-focus presence. The reflection sharpens into the portrait of an adult woman on the right portion of the blade, her dark hair pulled back, her intense eyes meeting the viewer against a blood-red backdrop, her skin pale against the red, her expression solemn and defiant, a few dark strands of hair escaping across her forehead. At the center of the frame, a red circular emblem, a bold V enclosed in a ring with paint dripping from its strokes, is stamped across the blade. In the lower-left corner, the dagger's curved silver guard sweeps into view, gripped by a dark leather-gloved hand entering from the bottom edge. The glove's worn leather creases catch small highlights, and the guard's elegant S-curve contrasts with the blade's brutal straightness. Across the lower center, the "TITLE" appears in tall white sans-serif letters, its two V shapes overlapping the red emblem. The letters are tall and narrow with generous spacing between them, glowing faintly white against the black. The lighting is low-key and dramatic: a hard key light rakes across the blade, throwing bright specular highlights along its edge while the background sinks into velvety darkness, with the embers adding a faint red underglow. The palette is stark and limited: black, steel silver, blood red, and white, with the red emblem as the only warm accent. Overall, the single diagonal blade divides the frame into a tense, graphic balance in a dark theatrical photographic style whose black-silver-and-red palette feels rebellious, brooding, and dangerously elegant.