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VHS Horror Cover

Film · Horror · Video Rental

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Front sleeve, floating face composition
Alternate sleeve, toxic green key
Spine and back copy block
Worn rental copy with sticker
Shelf of sleeves under strip light
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Recipe

GPT Image

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Updated 19 Jul 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

The recipe is the style, not the picture. Put your own subject in and the prompt updates.

Prompt

The front sleeve of a 1986 direct to video horror release. Airbrushed illustration of a large screaming face floating in darkness above a small farmhouse, hard magenta rim light, toxic green fog, a single figure walking toward the house. Heavy display title type with a chrome bevel and drips. Dot screen printing and slightly degraded inks. The artwork fills the whole frame.

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Recommended settings

Size
1024 x 1536
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1The floating head above a small scene is the composition. Ask for it directly.
  • 2Two light colours only. Magenta and green carry the entire era.
  • 3A rental sticker and a scuff turn a poster into an object with a history.

Things to try

Slasher

a masked figure reflected in a knife blade, deep blue night exterior

Creature feature

a rubber suit monster emerging from water, orange sunset behind

Sci-fi horror

a chrome corridor, a silhouette, cold cyan and magenta

Italian giallo

a gloved hand, a red curtain, high contrast graphic layout

Worn rental copy

heavy corner wear, tape residue, a barcode sticker over the art

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