 This films poster art is borrowed from a portrait photograph by  Philippe Halsman (qv) of Salvador Dalí (qv), entitled Salvador  Dali In Voluptate Mors. (The photo itself was inspired by surrealist  Dalis gouache Female Bodies as a Skull painting) This same imagery  was also used for the poster for  _Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)_ (qv).