Sam Raimi style reference and prompts

Distressed illustrated poster montage stacks close-up fragments in narrow vertical bands around a saturated central light column. Bold ink contours, crosshatching, dry-brush shadows, halftone grain, and scratched paper texture provide an aged printed finish. Mostly charcoal, gray-tan, and black side areas make limited crimson and flame-orange feel especially hot. Overlapping forms shift abruptly in scale, from large sharply modeled focal shapes to small silhouettes below. The illumination is theatrical: low colored glow pushes upward and cuts hard shadow pockets into surrounding detail. Vertical segmentation gives the density order, while rough edges and imperfect registration preserve suspenseful energy rather than polished symmetry.

A square illustrated thriller-poster montage is assembled from narrow vertical strips of faces and a central column of intense red firelight. The largest face is a dark-haired man near the upper middle-left, his knitted brows and direct glare rendered in bold black ink and crimson halftone. Around him, smaller faces overlap: a pale woman at the far left, another woman peering beside his shoulder, a shadowed man in a dark hat, and an older pale-haired man at the far right. A small severe face appears above the main man's shoulder. The lower center erupts in orange-red flames, against which two small dark-clothed figures stand at different distances; one wears a broad-brimmed hat. The sides remain mostly gray, tan, and black, making the central fire-red column feel like a heated cut through a cold archive. The collage is not a single realistic room. Its bands behave like torn poster panels, each carrying its own close-up or action fragment while sharing a rough paper surface. Faces are drawn with etched contour lines, crosshatching, dry brush shadows, and distressed speckle; tiny figures at the bottom are less detailed and more silhouette-like. The light is theatrical and directional, with red glow rising from below and hard shadows deepening eye sockets and brows. Texture is printed, scratched, and slightly aged rather than glossy. No legible title or credits occupy the image. The whole arrangement suggests danger and melodrama through sharply stacked expressions, vertical fragmentation, and the concentrated firelit center.