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Gleason’s letter explained that the face-like image in Michael Myers’ fist was indeed just a coincidence. The artist wrote:
“While painting the hand my thought was to have dramatic lights and dark shapes to match the strobe stabbing effects of the pumpkin. […] I did not consciously know I was infusing in the back of the hand a screaming monster with worms coming out of his mouth, eye and nose. […] his kind of freaks me out. I couldn’t have done it better if I had tried to do that. What dark nightmares lurk in my psyche?”
When one sees the monster face, it’s hard to unsee. It’s easy to believe, though, that it was unintentional.
A code that I and many of my peers hear circulating throughout the 1990s was that the jagged pumpkin “teeth” on Gleason’s poster, paired with the knife, spells out two capitals M’s, clearly meant to indicate the initials of Michael Myers. This, too, was likely a coincidence. Indeed, it’s likely that most “codes” you find hidden in movie posters are merely unusual caprices of the artist.
One might recall the minor scandal surrounding the VHS video cover of John Musker’s and Ron Clement’s 1989 animated film “The Little Mermaid.” Early versions of the cover featured a large undersea castle made up of glittering golden spires. The spire in the center just happened to be incredibly phallic and the poster was eventually changed. There were rumors that the phallus was included deliberately by a disgruntled artist who had lost her job and wanted to paint a penis out of spite.
Snopes investigated the rumor and found it to be false. It seems the castle was merely drawn in a hurry. The penile resemblance was a coincidence.
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