PaintedHalloween

Now showing · 24 styles

Your face. Their movie.

Horror renders from one photograph: printed for adult walls

  • Estimated: order by Oct 21 for Halloween
  • What you see is what prints
  • Your title, set in its own year’s type
  • An hour to cancel, refunded before it prints
Imani — Backlot 1931
Backlot 1931
Kenji — Nosferatu 1922
Nosferatu 1922
Rosa — Gothic Colour 1958
Gothic Colour 1958
Mara — Drive-In Pulp
Drive-In Pulp
Kenji — Giallo 1971
Giallo 1971
Imani — Atomic Age 1954
Atomic Age 1954
Kenji — VHS Slasher 1984
VHS Slasher 1984
Rosa — Body Horror 1986
Body Horror 1986
Imani — Found Footage
Found Footage
Mara — J-Horror 2002
J-Horror 2002
Silas — Grindhouse 1976
Grindhouse 1976
Kenji — Occult 1973
Occult 1973
Imani — The Werewolf
The Werewolf
Rosa — The Vampire
The Vampire
Kenji — The Risen
The Risen
Imani — The Black Water
The Black Water
Mara — The Creation
The Creation
Silas — The Wraith
The Wraith
Rosa — Daylight Cult
Daylight Cult
Imani — Neon Slasher
Neon Slasher
Silas — Arthouse Quiet
Arthouse Quiet
Kenji — Foam & Latex
Foam & Latex
Mara — Haunted Instant
Haunted Instant
Imani — Spirit Photograph 1885
Spirit Photograph 1885

Bring your face

Your face stays. The light, the era, the paper it was printed on, the thing you turned into: all of that goes. Your dog or cat can sit instead, for 20 of the 24. Adults only. Looking is free. You pay when one deserves a wall.

Pick the style

Studio Era

Video Nasty

The Monsters

Modern Dread

Backlot 1931

You are the monster on the one-sheet

Four passes on the house. A pass paints your photograph twice: the poster and the still. Your photograph goes to the engine twice, once per shape, and is not kept. Every style comes back twice — the upright poster and the widescreen still — and you choose at the till.

A test sitter rendered as an 1885 spirit photograph: sepia, a second translucent figure behind herThe same sitter's ordinary photograph, before the render

Spirit Photograph, 1885

A test sitter, forty-seven seconds. Yours replaces her.

Not for faces under eighteen. Not for photographs you do not have the right to use.

Scary, not cute

Halloween art online is mostly pumpkins with faces. This is the other Halloween: the one-sheet outside the drive-in, the tape the rental shop kept behind the counter, the photograph that should not have developed. Twenty-four styles, every one of them for an adult wall.

Some renders miss. That is why looking is free and every render is yours to refuse: we only print the one you chose.

The 24 styles

Five sitters share the wall, two to a style. Hover a card for the second.

Now in widescreen

The poster puts you on the wall outside. The still puts you inside the film: same face, same style, a world around you instead of a sheet behind you. Rufus and Nadia sit for the wide cut too. Three of the eighty-eight, dealt fresh for every visitor.

Three of eighty-eight. Every style has its still, and the toggle above the picker renders yours.

Photograph in, monster out

  1. 01One photograph. A clear adult face, roughly toward the camera. Phone photos are fine. Group shots are not: one face gets picked, and it may not be yours.
  2. 02One style. The same recipe that painted the exemplars on the wall is run on your face. The prompt is built here, not in your browser, so what you get is the style you chose.
  3. 03Ninety seconds. The poster lands at 1024 × 1536 and the still at 1536 × 1024. Keep it as a file, or buy it as a print up to 40 × 60″: what you see on screen is what goes to the printer, rebuilt at print resolution the moment you pay.
  4. 04Your words, if you want them. The type desk turns the painting into a one-sheet: a title, your name top of the bill, a tagline, set the way posters of that year were set. Skip it and the painting prints bare.
A theatre corridor lined with empty gilt frames, one figure at the far end

The monsters we brought with us

14 legends from the Nightfables collection, each painted nine ways: Dracula, the Kraken, Baba Yaga, the Headless Horseman. No upload needed. They are already finished, and they print to 40 × 60″.

Dracula — Backlot 1931
Backlot 1931
Dracula — Practical Creature
Practical Creature
Dracula — Doré Engraving
Doré Engraving
The Werewolf — Practical Creature
Practical Creature
The Werewolf — Neon Noir
Neon Noir
Frankenstein's Monster — Drive-In Pulp
Drive-In Pulp
Frankenstein's Monster — Gothic Colour 1958
Gothic Colour 1958
Little Red Riding Hood — Matinee Gouache
Matinee Gouache
Little Red Riding Hood — Limited Screenprint
Limited Screenprint
The Mummy — Backlot 1931
Backlot 1931
The Mummy — Practical Creature
Practical Creature
The Mummy — Gothic Colour 1958
Gothic Colour 1958
The Gingerbread Witch — Modern Storybook
Modern Storybook
The Gingerbread Witch — Neon Noir
Neon Noir
Medusa — Backlot 1931
Backlot 1931
Medusa — Expressionist 1922
Expressionist 1922
The Headless Horseman — Drive-In Pulp
Drive-In Pulp
The Headless Horseman — Limited Screenprint
Limited Screenprint
The Kraken — Doré Engraving
Doré Engraving
The Kraken — Limited Screenprint
Limited Screenprint
The Kraken — Expressionist 1922
Expressionist 1922
Baba Yaga — Modern Storybook
Modern Storybook
Baba Yaga — Practical Creature
Practical Creature
The Banshee — Doré Engraving
Doré Engraving
The Banshee — Backlot 1931
Backlot 1931
Sasquatch — Matinee Gouache
Matinee Gouache
Sasquatch — Limited Screenprint
Limited Screenprint
The Pied Piper — Doré Engraving
Doré Engraving
The Pied Piper — Limited Screenprint
Limited Screenprint
The Pied Piper — Drive-In Pulp
Drive-In Pulp
The Snow Queen — Gallery Minimal
Gallery Minimal
The Snow Queen — Folk Horror
Folk Horror
The Headless Horseman, pulp drive-in style, framed on a dark green wall beside a floor lamp; a woman stands looking at it
The Headless Horseman · Pulp Drive-In · 16 × 24″Enhanced matte, black frame not included, from $85

Hang it large

Enhanced matte, Hahnemühle Photo Rag, or canvas on a deep stretcher bar. We ship to 121 countries from the nearest print house, at a flat postage by size, set from the printer's own quotes.

12 × 18″from $65Desk or shelf
24 × 36″from $190Over a sofa
40 × 60″from $440Floor to picture rail, the largest we print

Then it comes home

Paper, canvas, or edge to edge across a hoodie. It’s the same render at print resolution, and we only print the one you chose. Every order and every render you kept waits on your wall, so ordering one again is a single click: no second upload, no second render.

Dracula, Backlot 1931, framed on a bedroom wall
Dracula · Backlot 1931 · 16 × 24″Enhanced matte, from $85
A man in a crewneck sweatshirt printed edge to edge with the Werewolf render, hands in his pockets, studio light
Silas · The WerewolfAll-over sweatshirt, $200
A man against a wet brick wall at night in a hoodie printed edge to edge with the VHS Slasher render
Mara · VHS Slasher 1984All-over hoodie, $230
The Kraken, Drive-In Pulp, framed on a loft wall
The Kraken · Drive-In Pulp · 12 × 18″Enhanced matte, from $65
Mara, Neon Slasher, framed on a deciding wall
Mara · Neon Slasher · 16 × 24″Enhanced matte, from $85
A woman seated on a stool in a sweatshirt printed edge to edge with the Occult 1973 render, one hard light
Mara · Occult 1973All-over sweatshirt, $200
A crewneck sweatshirt printed edge to edge with the Atomic Age render of Silas, green-eyed under a mushroom cloud
Silas · Atomic Age 1954All-over sweatshirt, $200
A woman in a hoodie printed edge to edge with the Drive-In Pulp render of Mara, hood up
Mara · Drive-In PulpAll-over hoodie, $230
A crewneck sweatshirt printed edge to edge with the VHS Slasher render of Silas
Silas · VHS Slasher 1984All-over sweatshirt, $200
A man against a wet brick wall at night in a hoodie printed edge to edge with the Drive-In Pulp render of Silas
Silas · Drive-In PulpAll-over hoodie, $230
A woman seated on a stool in a sweatshirt printed edge to edge with the Atomic Age render of Mara
Mara · Atomic Age 1954All-over sweatshirt, $200
A woman in a hoodie printed edge to edge with the VHS Slasher render of Mara, hood up
Mara · VHS Slasher 1984All-over hoodie, $230