THE CHALLENGE
HELLSPACE isn’t just a sci-fi horror film, it’s a psychological story about losing and reclaiming trust in your own mind. The main character, a woman on a deep-space mission, starts sensing something is stalking her. But is it real? Or is she spiraling?
The film is a metaphor for bipolar disorder and psychosis. It explores paranoia, medication, and what it takes to stay grounded when your reality starts to crack. The twist? She’s right. There is a monster. But she’s also fighting her mind and still trusting her instincts.
The visuals had to hold all that. It needed to feel tense, cinematic, and emotionally real.
THE SOLUTION
We created a title treatment with clean type and ghosted distortion, like static, like dissociation. The poster shows a mirrored image of the protagonist, with a hidden creature just behind her. You don’t see the threat at first. Then you do.
The color palette leans hard into phosphor green. Think glitch, surveillance, digital unease. It signals a breakdown of reality, of identity, of safety.
MY PART
✔ Creative Director, Title Designer, and Creative Writing Partner
✔ Helped shape the narrative arc and clarify the protagonist’s POV as a metaphor for mental illness
✔ Collaborated on script revisions and thematic positioning to keep the story grounded in emotional truth
✔ Designed a title treatment that reflects duality, tension, and unraveling perception
✔ Created key art that balances horror with humanity, paranoia with strength
✔ Built cinematic compositions for both portrait and landscape formats
✔ Developed a visual language through color, texture, and type that mirrors fear, isolation, and resilience
The final campaign plays with perspective. In the portrait version, she’s alone in the frame, no threat in sight. In the landscape, the creature’s hand enters, reframing everything. That duality reflects the core tension: is the danger real, or is it imagined?
This visual identity doesn’t just capture a genre. It captures a truth.
She’s not just seeing things.
She’s surviving them.
