I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a horror short story written by Harlan Ellison, for this project I envisioned that the story was getting a movie adaptation based off both the books and the games. The story follows 5 survivors being held captive by an evil all powerful AI called AM who has kept them imprisoned and alive for 109 years to torment them out of hatred for humanity.

Creating this project I analyzed horror movie posters and advertisements, as well as space related horror. The goal was to use only text to create everything on the display, each person, image, and thing is made up of text from within either the game or the short story. The individual posters themselves features each character in a pose representing what they contributed as a cause for AM's eventual uprise in the form of hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil, think no evil, and do no evil. Each character is made up by their phrase while the title itself is made of binary code that translates to one of AM's famous in game speeches. The color palette is a monochrome red to allow for the text itself to speak for the design, instead I relied on textual hierarchy, emphasizing specific words and phrases based on how they were spoken within AM's lines. The billboards bring in AM's all seeing eyes watching over the last of humanity as he torments them, with various quotes from the game as a tool to guide your vision through the design itself.