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Plus director Corin Hardy shows us his sketchbookThere's something lurking in the woods. As it prepares to rock FrightFest this weekend, Corin Hardy's Irish folk-horror The Hallow has summoned up a new poster, demonstrating that nature does indeed have a dark side. Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton and Michael Smiley lead the cast, but the star here is the artwork, courtesy of Artmachine, from a design by Hardy himself."I always keep a sketchbook on me for doodles, designs, storyboards and creature concept ideas," Hardy tells Empire, "and I had this idea for a Hallow poster during the shoot, where the flaming scythe would illuminate the abstract forest terrors in a way that nodded toward some of the beautifully crafted, classic illustrated movie posters by the likes of Drew Struzen and Graham Humphreys.