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ensemble poster design — Screaming close-up with dripping red stacked title

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L0787 · Screaming close-up with dripping red stacked title

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L0787

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A painted horror movie poster of a screaming woman's colossal face looming over a standing nun and a kneeling nude figure, set against a pale, chalky gray-white void. The background is a washed, off-white expanse with faint smudged texture, keeping all attention on the three figures. In the upper-left corner, the giant face dominates, mouth stretched wide in a shriek. The face belongs to an adult woman with ghostly pale skin, heavy dark eye makeup, and sharply arched brows. Three small dark moles dot her forehead, and long white-blond hair streams down past her chin. Her eyes roll upward, whites exposed, painted with frenzied, feverish strokes. Along the top edge, strands of her pale hair nearly brush the frame's boundary. On the right side of the frame, a nun stands in full habit, her body rigid and upright. The nun wears a black veil and robe with a stark white wimple framing a stern, sallow face. Near her shoulders, her pale hands hover over the figure below, as if restraining or blessing. In the lower-center of the frame, a young adult nude woman kneels with her back to the viewer. Her long golden hair falls down her spine, and her right arm rises high in a gesture of ecstasy or supplication. Her skin is rendered in warm peach and rose tones, glowing against the nun's black robe. To the left of the kneeling figure, the title ("TITLE") appears in a dripping, hand-drawn red script. The title stacks a small lowercase word above a much larger uppercase word, both in blood-red, irregular lettering. Behind the title, the pale background stretches empty and unbroken. In the bottom-left corner, the bare negative space emphasizes the title's isolation. The lighting is soft and diffused, like daylight through thin cloud, with almost no harsh shadows and gentle modeling of the flesh tones. The only deep blacks are the nun's veil and robe, which anchor the right side of the frame. Overall, the composition balances the screaming visage in the upper left against the dark vertical mass of the nun on the right and the luminous kneeling figure below, the bleached palette of chalk white, nun black, peach flesh, and arterial red in a 1970s exploitation-painting style with a mood of blasphemous, hallucinatory dread.