A man has used AI to give well-known faces a spooky makeover - reimagining Rishi Sunak as Dracula and Donald Trump as a pumpkin.
Duncan Thomsen has turned US president Joe Biden into Freddy Krueger, Beyonce and Madonna into witches, Elon Musk a scarecrow and Keir Starmer Frankenstein's monster.
Duncan, who lives in Brighton, spent a day creating the images.
The 53-year-old said: "I love the Elon Musk one - I like the fact he looks like a Hollywood villain.
"There is a calmness in his face, he could be a crow man that would take on Batman.
"When you put his face on it, the combination of AI and his face worked perfectly.
"The Donald Trump pumpkin has caught something about him, especially his orangeness. I am astonished at what AI can do."
AI software Midjourney responds to prompts by the user and creates pictures by referencing billions of images online.
Duncan, a freelance film editor, used it to create the Halloween-themed pictures through the application Discord.
He typed in certain phrases to achieve the results.
Duncan, who also created Boris Johnson as Uncle Fester from The Addams Family, believes that the opportunities with AI are endless and that software will be used more and more in everyday life as time goes on.
He said: "I got an eye for image through my day job and have been fortunate to have worked with some really great people.
"It's allowed me to cross-reference everything I've worked on and explore my imagination without limits and this is the result."
Duncan has been playing around with the software in lots of different ways.
He has previously created what Glastonbury headliners would look like if they had “normal” jobs, which created some hilarious portraits of the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner as a milkman.
Duncan also had a go at making the “perfect” Love Island contestants by merging winners from the show in previous years.
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