Disgusting Halloween decorations

For me I think anything that looks realistic is a bit much. Most decorations are a version which is clearly fake.

I saw a hanging wrapped body in a bin bag in an estate agents window recently. I'm not remotely one to do moral panic but it felt a bit much.

I’m Irish and Halloween traditions go back a long way here, but this year I was appalled by what looked like an execution from Tudor times hanging in a row along the fence of neighbours house. Also my very young nephew dressed in a really grotesque costume.
I’ve always loved Halloween with cute little ghosts and witches but it just seems to have crossed a line. Not everyone - most of the kids who came to the door were very sweet.

This thread has really made me think.

I must admit I hadn’t really considered the “crime scene” tape decorations I’ve seen and that they must be triggering for some. I agree the hanged bodies, car crash, body bags sound way way too far - I’ve not seen any like that round us. I don’t think anything showing a dead body/suicide/murder scene is ok. And isn’t really what Halloween is about anyway, it was always about the supernatural - ghosts witches and monsters.

On the other hand, the decorations my DC and friends’ DC have found most scary have been the supernatural/ghost type ones…

😂

Not decoration as such but kids dressed up holding toy knives and guns is extremely distasteful!

I agree. My son is terrified of Halloween and we have been stuck in for a fortnight because of the decorations. Can't wait for it to be over. Thank you for raising it.

@Verv im not sure why this is upsetting you so much that you have to be rude. The OP is about a horrible display on a driveway that can be seen by children. It was defended as being ‘just Halloween’. My point is that it’s not a traditional element of Halloween and isn’t suitable for a general display. I don’t give a fuck if you or anyone else wants to watch horror films in the privacy of your own home ‘because it’s Halloween’.

The silly stuff doesn't bother me.

The stupid distracting stuff particularly on busy junctions or fast roads does, particularly where theres flashing lights and its going to confuse drivers (a few round here do this and its impossible to see if someones indicating, blocks the view of traffic coming out of the junction etc... a few accidents last year as a result of this!)...

The really accurate gory stuff... I am less and less amused by the older and more grumpy I get. This year, I have just done a 1 day seminar that involved forensic images of dead folk, graphic stuff with bodies maimed and ripped apart... it's not funny in the slightest, particularly the stuff involving babies/children.

A woman put an image on of her two children dressed as chucky and took the to the graveyard for a mini photoshoot. Really really distasteful taking pictures like that in a graveyard

I do, ViaRia10.
And I disagree with everyone who thinks it is amusing in any way. Not at all to my taste.

The spooky supernatural stuff is one thing, but the realistic gore stuff is too close to home for a lot of people - if people are into that in the privacy of their own home, that's one thing, but it is in poor taste when a lot of the scenes depicted are things that actually DO happen. My job involves talking to bereaved people and I hear a lot of people describe gory or traumatic stuff on a weekly basis, it's more common than most people realise.

Definitely ott, Halloween is supposed to be for children to have a bit of fun,that would be upsetting.

And what @Ididivfama said 🍄🕸🎃

I love Halloween and am sort of macabre myself but I won’t have scary Halloween decorations because I don’t want to scare the little kids!

I agree op. We decorated with a couple of pumpkins and some tastefully placed candles and lanterns. No severed hands or decapitated heads at our house,💀

YANBU.

I like Halloween but mostly for it''s autumnal feel. I don't mind the pumpkin decoration or anything ghosty but can't stand all the gory stuff, I must admit I react quite viscerally to all that. I went to Gaels today where they were selling Halloween fingers, some sort of pastry, it looked totally disturbing, I thought I was going to be sick .

I like little kids trick or treating and happily decorate the front of the house with a few things but even some of the kids costumes are too much.

I am saying this sitting in a dark house, all sweets gone, pumpkin in, car not on the driveway as dh is out and people are still ringing the door bell. It's a bit perturbing🙀

I agree about all the death stuff tbh. I like pumpkins and fantasy creatures like witches, vampires and monsters. I don’t like the nasty death stuff at all.

Christine.

Pumpkins, black cats, witches and orange lights?

Yes exactly.

If your decorations are intended to frighten people, you must be a cunt, frankly.

I've voted YABU (even though I absolutely hate anything gory or horror and can't be arsed with Halloween) as you are being unreasonable if you like Halloween decorations but only if they meet your approval.
They're all gory and morbid if you think about it.
Even your plaggy skeletons and mummies.

Yes... it's supposed to be good humoured, or just atmospheric.

Thats the point I think, if it makes you smile then it's all good.

As for @SurprisedWithAHorse 's What Car reading skeleton...I'm storing that idea for next year 😂