With both Halloween and, more importantly, the first Manchester derby of the season now within spitting distance, a football fan from Lancashire has successfully spliced the two together like some kind of ungodly lab experiment gone awry.
Simon McMinnis, who comes down firmly on the United side of the Manc divide, has spent the majority of his week so far creating jack-o'-lantern effigies of the two managers going head-to-head at the Etihad on Sunday using two enormous 15kg pumpkins he purchased from the supermarket next door.
Having been challenged to create a derby-related carving by a member of staff from the supermarket in question, it took McMinnis a total of 25 hours to hack the faces of Louis van Gaal and Manuel Pellegrini into the two pumpkins.
Julie Feeney, from the supermarket, told the Manchester Evening News: "I'm a blue and he's a red, so we challenged him to come up with something for derby day as a bit of banter.
"I'm not sure what Louis and Manuel will make of their pumpkin lookalikes but we think they are fantastic.
"I reckon the Pellegrini pumpkin just edges it in terms of best likeness. I'm hoping that's an omen for the result of the match."
You can judge that one for yourselves.
Louis van Gaal and Manuel Pellegrini's faces on pumpkins - terrific or terrifying? #MUFC #MCFC http://t.co/RaWW9CYwKx pic.twitter.com/b8FLaflMO7
- Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) October 30, 2014
McMinnis said: "I love this time [of the year] and I've carved all sorts of weird and wonderful pumpkins in the past.
"I'm just hoping my Van Gaal tribute brings a bit of luck on the pitch for the Reds and help Louis carve his way into the Manchester derby history books."