Analog Horror Face
Transform an adult portrait into an eerie fictional broadcast still with VHS artifacts and controlled, non-graphic distortion.
Template prompt
Use the adult man in the image I provide as the reference for one fictional analog-horror portrait. Preserve his recognizable face shape, skin tone, hairstyle, age, and gender presentation while changing the atmosphere and rendering. Frame him from mid-chest up, centered and facing the camera with a still, unreadable expression. His head should occupy about one-third of the image height; keep both shoulders visible and leave a narrow band of dim room behind him. Place him in an empty late-night public-access studio with a blank gray-green wall and one softly glowing CRT monitor behind his right shoulder. The monitor is smaller than his head and shows only indistinct horizontal light bands, no interface or legible text. Use a harsh overhead fluorescent source with a weak amber practical light from the side. Add restrained VHS scan lines, slight chromatic fringing at the frame edges, analog tape noise, mild interlacing, softened highlights, and a faint phosphor glow. Style: realistic low-light portrait photography processed as a damaged 1990s broadcast tape, with believable skin texture, muted green-gray color, crushed shadows, and subtle film grain. Keep the face unsettling through stillness and lighting, not gore or anatomical mutation. One adult subject only. No blood, wounds, exposed teeth, extra eyes, melted features, real broadcast logos, readable captions, police imagery, watermark, extra people, or duplicated facial parts.
