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Halloween’s Original Poster Is Hiding An Accidental Creepy Detail
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
The poster design of "Halloween" features the hand of Michael Myers holding a large curved kitchen knife that melts into a repeated pattern that forms a jack o' lantern.
The poster was painted by artist Bob Gleason, who noticed that the grooves that circumvent a pumpkin could be used to shadow an actual knife.
In a 2022 article for Insider, Gleason reveals in a letter a hidden detail in his design that wasn't supposed to be there: A face in the knuckles and veins of Myers' fist.
The second knuckle looks like a nose and the third and fourth knuckles might be seen as lips. The veins could be worms crawling out of the face's orifices.
Gleason said the face is just a coincidence. He writes, "I did not consciously know I was infusing in the back of the hand a screaming monster [...] his kind of freaks me out."
He continues, "I couldn't have done it better if I had tried to do that. What dark nightmares lurk in my psyche?"