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horror poster design — Multi-line title with serif type and top title

L0818 · horror poster design — Multi-line title with serif type and top title. Explore the reference image and prompt, then open this composition in the layout tool.

L0818 · Multi-line title with serif type and top title

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L0818

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A horror movie poster shows a terrified woman's face seized by a grotesque scarred hand, set against a grimy sun-scorched yellow wall. The background is a mottled expanse of aged yellow and ochre, streaked with grime, scratch marks, and dark vertical drips like weathered plaster. In the upper-left corner, a blown-out flare of white light burns against the yellow, half hidden behind a reaching arm. Across the upper third, a title in tall serif capitals reads "TITLE", its two largest words in solid black and the two smaller words above and between them in a faded brick red. Below the title, a pale forearm stretches diagonally from the upper-left edge, its skin sallow, veined, and deeply creased. In the lower-right quadrant, the face of an adult woman in her twenties lies tilted sideways, her skin flushed warm, her wide eyes staring upward in terror and her mouth slightly parted. Her dark hair spreads toward the left edge, dissolving into deep shadow. Gripping her face, a gnarled hand with thick scarred knuckles, blackened nails, and leathery folds presses her cheek and temple, its fingers splayed wide. The thumb digs near her nose, dimpling the skin of her cheek under its pressure. Her visible eye is bloodshot, the iris catching a small hard glint of reflected light. In the lower-left corner, brown-black shadow swallows the edge of the frame, grounding the image in darkness. Along the right edge, the yellow wall darkens into a burnt amber haze behind the woman's head. In the lower-right corner, her chin nearly touches the edge of the frame, her lips parted mid-breath with a glossy sheen. The hand's wrist vanishes into the blackness at the left, suggesting a body beyond the frame. Fine flecks and scratches speckle the yellow wall, like damage on old film. The title letters sit flat against the wall texture, casting no shadow. The lighting is harsh and directional, raking in from the upper left so the hand's ridges and scars throw deep shadows while the woman's face carries a feverish warm highlight. The final composition sets the tilted face in the lower right against the diagonal invasion of the hand from the upper left, in a gritty yellow-and-umber palette, a harsh photorealistic horror style, and a mood of inescapable dread.