There’s trying too hard, and then there’s accidentally summoning a demon into your PowerPoint presentation. Infected Freaks: Volume Three – The Red Tower, Part One (a title that’s longer than the runtime of some indie horror films) is a full-blown cover design catastrophe wrapped in a black-glass skyscraper and baptized in the unholy flames of JPEG hell.
Let’s start with the imagery.
There’s a building. A big, generic, glass corporate tower — probably a Chase Bank branch that’s been Photoshopped into submission. And layered over that? A red, semi-transparent, vaguely demonic face that looks like someone tried to summon Satan using the “Overlay” layer mode and a free clip-art PNG. It’s not scary. It’s not dramatic. It’s barely visible, like the evil entity couldn’t commit to showing up for the cover shoot.
The red flame textures (or are they blood veins? or lava? or corrupted tie-dye?) are splattered all over the tower in what can only be described as digital graffiti from the nether realm. It’s like the design process involved opening a fire texture pack and shouting, “More! MORE!” until the building itself was begging for mercy.
And then… the fonts.
Oh no. The fonts.
The title INFECTED FREAKS is in military-stencil bold, complete with faux distressing, giving the strong impression of a Call of Duty menu screen from 2007. The spacing is tight. The kerning is panicked. It’s the kind of font that says, “I come pre-installed on your uncle’s computer next to a folder labeled ‘ZOMBIE POSTER FINAL FINAL.’”
The subtitle — Volume Three: The Red Tower, Part One — is stacked below like an afterthought from a spreadsheet. It’s yelling in all caps but offering zero visual hierarchy, like a rogue Wikipedia heading wandered onto the cover and couldn’t find its way out.
And the color palette? Fire engine red on black, with grayscale concrete undertones. It’s visually loud, emotionally flat, and the overall vibe is “angry malware got a publishing deal.”
Let’s not forget the big problem: we have no idea what’s happening.
- What are the infected freaks?
- Is the tower evil?
- Is the demon in the building, or is the building the demon?
- Is this a horror novel, a dystopian thriller, or a recruitment pamphlet for a zombie cult startup?
We’ll never know, because the cover is a visual scream with no message. Just fire, building, fonts, and vibes.
Congratulations, Infected Freaks.
You’ve built a tower all right — a tower of questionable design decisions, and it’s crumbling under the weight of every overused texture, overwrought font, and forgotten shadow.
The only thing infected here…
is the cover file.