Decisions between poster ideas

During the process stage of our new poster, we was originally going to stick with the idea of the spooky hands covering the protagonists hands, but we didn't want the images to be too similar so we then had to think of a way to show the protagonist slowly being possessed. This is when our main editor 'Valentino' came up with the idea of taking out the hands and putting the grudge effect growing from the area that were originally covered by the hands.
We didn't know if it would of worked as well as the hands so what we did was create both as an unfinished version, and let our target audience decide which they thought was best.
As a result, our audience loved the version without the hands covering parts of her face. some of the audience even commented that it worked even better, therefore we continued to work on the version without the hands on her face.