# VHS Horror Cover: Star in a Lost 80s Horror Movie

Turn your selfie into the worn VHS box cover of a forgotten 80s horror film — your title, your tagline.

## Prompt

```text
Use the attached photo as the identity reference. Create the front cover of a worn VHS tape box for a forgotten {{Year}} horror movie, with the person as the frightened-but-brave lead character.

IDENTITY:
Preserve the person's recognizable face, facial structure, skin tone, hairstyle, age, and gender. Keep glasses, facial hair, and distinctive features. Give them a dramatic expression — wide eyes looking over their shoulder, or a determined stare — and dress them in era-appropriate {{Year}} clothing such as a denim jacket, oversized sweater, or windbreaker. Keep the face clearly recognizable.

ARTWORK:
Painted 1980s movie-poster illustration style: airbrushed highlights, dramatic rim lighting in red and electric blue, heavy shadows, and a slightly exaggerated cinematic composition. The lead fills the lower two-thirds of the cover. Behind them, {{Setting}} looms in the background with a huge glowing full moon, drifting fog, and the silhouette of a mysterious shadowy figure — suggested, never shown clearly. Keep it spooky and atmospheric, with no gore.

TITLE AND TEXT:
At the top, the title "{{Movie Title}}" in huge, bold, dripping 80s horror lettering with a chrome-and-red gradient, perfectly spelled. Below the artwork, the tagline "{{Tagline}}" in smaller condensed white capitals. Add a small "{{Year}}" and a tiny fictional studio logo in a bottom corner. Do not add any other words.

VHS WEAR:
Make it look like a real rental tape box found in a garage: faded colors, creased and scuffed cardboard edges, a slightly peeling clear plastic sleeve with glare, a faded orange "BE KIND, PLEASE REWIND" sticker in one corner, and a price sticker reading "$2.99".

COMPOSITION:
Vertical 2:3 VHS box cover, front view, filling the whole frame.

AVOID:
Gore, blood, weapons pointed at the person, real movie titles, real studio logos, misspelled text, extra words, modern clothing, watermarks, and a face that doesn't look like the person.
```

## Variable settings

- "Movie Title": default "THE LAST SLEEPOVER"; suggested values []
- "Tagline": default "Some friends never leave."; suggested values []
- "Year": default "1987"; suggested values ["1982","1985","1987","1989"]
- "Setting": default "a fog-covered summer camp at night"; suggested values ["a fog-covered summer camp at night","an empty shopping mall after closing","a creaky lake house","a small-town drive-in theater"]

## Examples

### VHS Horror Cover: Star in a Lost 80s Horror Movie example

Image Input: https://picoprompt.app/api/images/b9b2d39f-b795-4a38-a582-5a7530125f94.webp  
Result: https://picoprompt.app/api/images/a89b2595-247e-4110-a663-9d8761740510.webp

Category: Image  
Author: @jaketheprompter  
Model: Any chat model  
Canonical URL: https://picoprompt.app/p/POTAEK4W