The phrase "a menacing image" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when describing something that appears threatening or frightening in some way. For example: "The dark clouds formed a menacing image in the sky, causing the children to run inside for cover." "His cold stare and clenched fists created a menacing image, making the others in the room uneasy." "The abandoned house had a menacing image, with broken windows and overgrown weeds surrounding it."
There was a menacing image drawn on my mirror in eyeliner.
A retractable ladder was raised on top of the minivan; Mr. Fairey climbed up and pasted "Fiend Rocker," a menacing image of a Misfits-like skeleton in a leather jacket.
It's the kind of book cover guaranteed to generate stares when pulled out in public: the title, "The Moslems are Coming: Encounters with a Desktop Terrorist," is emblazoned above a menacing image of a man brandishing a firearm, but a closer inspection shows a USB flash drive sticking out of it.
Several paintings were dominated by menacing images of the Incredible Hulk, all green skin and purple tights.
Considered his last work of overtly political art, it juxtaposes menacing images of war and idyllic scenes of shepherds and rural life.
In the marvellous, dazzling nuptial scene, when Prospero (as he has planned all along) bequeaths Miranda to the shipwrecked Ferdinand, trippy white balloons, resilient as raindrops, fill up with shimmering, then menacing images.
What really stands out about the title of Tennessee Williams's late one-act "Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws" is not the stylish image, a menacing relative to that more vulnerable feline on a sweltering roof.
It's hard to imagine anyone who watched Super Bowl XVIII in January 1984 ever forgetting what many consider the highlight of that game: the moment our televisions filled with the image of a menacing Big Brother addressing, via giant screen, a room full of cowering and slack-jawed worker-drones.
About the same time, someone painted a menacing 8-foot-by-12-foot image of a skull on the wall of a historical structure in a nearby area known as the Wonderland of Rocks.
More and more often, Europeans talk about America as a menacing, even dangerous force intent on remaking the world in its image.
The Christie case, in contrast, opened up a cultural space that fostered a distorted dialogue on the dangers of illegal abortion, through which the image of the 'professional' male abortionist was reversed to assume a menacing, sinister profile.
