Quick answer
Upload a clear selfie to Gemini or ChatGPT, then paste the bedroom prompt below. It asks for a grainy Y2K snapshot of you with a masked, hooded figure in the doorway. Guys can use the second prompt, which swaps the props. For a clip where the figure really moves, the video prompt goes into an image-to-video tool, or Ghostface AI does it without one.
The prompts passed around on TikTok and Reddit differ in detail but share the same pieces: a 2000s bedroom, warm lamp light, a retro prop, a phone pose, and the figure behind you. We wrote our own from those pieces. They describe the costume rather than naming the character, since a named film villain is a common reason for an app to say no.
The original: a Y2K bedroom
Use the uploaded photo and keep this person’s face exactly the same. Create a grainy early-2000s snapshot: they lie on their stomach across a bed with patterned sheets, holding a corded landline phone to their ear and looking at the camera. Posters on the wall, fairy lights, a glowing CRT TV. Behind them, in the dark doorway, stands a tall figure in a black hooded robe and a long white mask with hollow black eyes and a stretched, open mouth. Warm lamp light on the person, the doorway in shadow. On-camera flash, soft film grain, vertical 4:5.
Attach the selfie, then paste. The opening sentence carries the most weight: without it, image models tend to drift toward a generic face that only resembles you.
A version for guys
The bedroom prompt works on anyone, but its props read like a teen movie set. This one keeps the dread and changes the room, which is what most “Ghostface AI trend for men” searches are after.
Keep the face and build of the man in the uploaded photo unchanged. A grainy 2000s photo from a cheap digital camera: he sits on the edge of his bed in a hoodie, a game controller in his hands, lit by the blue glow of a bulky old TV. A desk lamp is the only other light. In the hallway behind him, half in shadow, a figure in a black hooded robe and a white screaming mask is watching. He hasn’t noticed. Muted colors, slight blur, vertical 4:5.
- Swap the controller for a pizza box, a skateboard or a guitar. Keep the TV glow: it does the lighting.
- Beard or glasses gone? Add “keep his beard and glasses”, since models often tidy them away.
- Leave “he hasn’t noticed” in. A man staring down the figure turns it into an action poster.
Other ideas to drop in
Swap the middle of either prompt (the pose and the room) for one of these, and keep the opening face sentence and the figure sentence as they are.
Mirror
The figure is only in the reflection.
standing at a bathroom mirror brushing their hair; the masked figure shows only in the mirror behind them
Sleepover
Two friends on the floor, one visitor.
two friends sit on the carpet with popcorn and a VHS tape; the masked figure stands behind the couch
Instant photo
A white border and a harsh flash.
shot as an instant photo with a white border, harsh flash, a little red-eye
When you want it to move
Vertical 9:16 video, 8 seconds, grainy 1990s look. The person from the photo sits still on a sofa in a dark living room lit only by a table lamp, eyes on the lens. Behind them, a figure in a dark hooded cloak and a blank pale mask steps slowly out of the doorway and bends toward their shoulder. The person never turns around. Cool shadows, slight blur, slow zoom in. Keep the face exactly as in the photo. No text, no weapons, no blood.
- “Never turns around”: the calm is the joke. Without it, most tools make you whip round and scream.
- “No weapons”: video tools that block horror tend to object to the knife, not the mask.
- “Slow zoom in”: a moving camera keeps it from looking like a frozen photo with one thing sliding across it.
Gemini and ChatGPT make the still; the clip has to come from a video tool, and keeping the figure behind you rather than beside you takes a few tries. Ghostface AI does this scene from one selfie, no prompt, for 80 credits.
Common problems
Gemini says it can’t make this
Take “Ghostface” and “Scream” out and keep the costume description. Still refused? Remove any knife or blood.
The figure stands next to me, not behind
Say where twice: “in the doorway behind them” and “the person is closest to the camera”.
It looks too clean and modern
Ask for “a cheap 2000s digital camera, flash, soft grain” and delete “4K”, “HDR” or “cinematic”.
My face changed
Put the keep-the-face sentence first and use a sharp, evenly lit selfie. If only one detail drifts, ask for that fix on its own.
FAQ
What is the Ghostface AI trend prompt?
A Y2K bedroom photo of you on a corded phone, with a figure in a black hood and white mask in the dark doorway behind you, grainy and lamp-lit. The full text is above, ready to copy.
Is there a Ghostface prompt for men?
Yes: the second one, with a hoodie, a game controller and an old TV in place of the bedroom props. Any of them works for anyone; only the room changes.
Do the prompts work in ChatGPT as well as Gemini?
Both accept them. Grain and color come out differently, so if one app’s result looks too polished, run it in the other.
Does Reelfie use one of these prompts?
No. The Ghostface AI template has its own scene built in and needs only your selfie.
Make your first one
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