AIBU to feel sick with some of the kids costumes for Halloween?

[IcingandSlicing]

Whatever is happening with this celebration? It seems like every year the costumes are getting nastier and nastier and they don't seem appropriate for kids IMO
Most of the proposed "themed" foods are just gross so to say.
And the decorations - holly hell!
AIBU or is the whole thing moving too fast for me from year to year?

Icing and Slicing I agree for young children too gory here.

Take a look at these sweet costumes.

www.potterybarnkids.com/shop/halloween/halloween-costumes/?cm_type=gnav

much much much nicer.

Dd 16, is off to a party and we spent an evening looking for a costume. She just wtf d at every female costume being "sexy". Sexy my little pony, sexy tigger, sexy mario and luigi. Why?
We did laugh for no reason, apart from silliness, at a crayola crayon.
She is going as a Ray Lichtenstein painting.

Fixerupperz I love it! Got skeleton bones that looks as if the skeleton is coming out of the "grave"! Crime scene tape and spare bones etc. Weve even got a fog machine that we pump when anyone comes to the door! Weve got one of those giant butlers Asda sold that we put at the window and flash a strobe light on and off, its quite spooky highlighting him!

The worst one I've seen was only scary in its inappropriateness - "harem girl" costume. Ages 2+....

Tinkerball, we have a graveyard in our yard, too! Parents take pictures of their kids in our graveyard on Beggar's Night. We have headstones of course, plus a skeleton hanging from a noose on the tree, some zombies half out of their graves, and we have a fog machine, too! We have a strobe, but we haven't found the right use for it. We also have a giant spider that we put it on some webs with some loose bones. We got a new thing this year, a headstone with a woman's head that pops up and screams when you pass it. I think these things might be more common here in the US, though, so they're a bit less shocking.

Halloween is my husband's birthday, and it's also our anniversary. We really like Halloween. :)

My MIL is doing a party this year and has gone mad with it, i love it all, I know people tend to say " oh its american why are you doing it" etc but to us its a bit of dressy up fun, spending time together when none of us are working (this year anyway) and just forgetting the mundane day to day shit.
Everyone needs something to look forward to and this month its this

DiaDuit that question was meant for myself to figure out after I see what the other people think :)

It IS fun. I've never liked dressing up, but I do love decorating.

My kids never pick scary costumes. This year, the oldest is too old, but #2 son is dressing as Link from The Legend of Zelda video games, and our four-year-old is going as Batman. She picked a girly Batman costume, pink and black.

www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1097427470284848 is the cutest halloween costume ever.

oh bless thats too cute red.

who cares if its amercian!!

I would love a Fog Machine, nyone see the 70's film the Fog I love it.

KnittedJimmyChoos I would be most happy if all the costumes looked like that - they are gorgeous and I'd even say innocent. I can go such a party no problems at all. Cute monsters all the way!

I have always seen Halloween as a nice occasion to dress up and eat sweets - both of which far from nasty/slimy/scary/gory aspects.

My problem is each year I see more gory and scary costumes than cute, compared to previous years (or so it seems, as I can't prove it, just started being shocked lately and not before).

Some people think that as a celebration of the dead it should be as scary as can be and all is in place. I say it's not appropriate for kids then.

My point is - if horror movies are rated for kids shouldn't gory Halloween (including costumes) be too?

We've also got a full on graveyard going in our front garden. Skeletons coming out the ground, creepy dolls that shuffle forward and say, "Ohh. You forgot me" in the creepiest voice ever. About 15 pumpkins on the front porch of varying sizes and cobwebs and huge spiders over all the bushes and trees in the front. LOVE it! My teenagers are refusing to get the leaf blower out unless it's to make huge piles of leaves that they're going to hide in and jump out at trick or treaters.

There is a house down our street that looks amazing with 6 foot figures all over the garden, one of which is the scariest clown I've ever seen! I hate walking past it at night.

steff13 - aww Link from Zelda! What a great choice!
But I wouldn't go around your garden on Halloween though! :D

I agree slicing, I have to say I have not noticed anything too bad for mines age group BUT too much really gory stuff in supermarkets. DC have been scared just looking at shelves.

I get that. Do you all have haunted houses in the UK? My son went to the scariest one in our area, Dent Schoolhouse, and when I looked through the pictures there were some really little kids in there. I don't like haunted houses, because I'm afraid the people are going to touch me, but they are huge here.

Where do people get this nonsense of it being an American tradition. It's Irish/celtic and has some interesting side traditions and reasons. Here is a quick guide.

I do think masks that are objectively likely to be scary to children or depict violence shouldn't be on open display, but by the same token, Pinterest pumpkin babies make me want to gag.

You would be U if you wanted to ban Hallowe'en, but wanting to protect children from horror is not particularly U.

It may well be Irish/Celtic - Im neither and absolutely loathe it.
Scream masks in the local newsagents,skeletons,mummies wrapped in bloody bandages, DC encouraged the knock on doors and threaten their neighbours.
Blech.

DS is 7 and he and his friends are very much into the fake blood, zombie stuff this year.

They don't associate 'gore' with murder and crime the way you would as an adult, they just think it's gross and therefore funny.

I so wish I still had a stream running through the front garden...
www.idecorsz.com/spooky-ideas-for-outdoor-halloween-decoration-diy-halloween-decorations-for-yard.html

YANBU. I think Halloween should be about the spirit world - ghosts, skeletons, etc., the veil being thin between this world and the next, and all that. But NOT horror films and murderers.

Nicesoap Where do you live where people are threatening their neighbours?! You just knock on the door, people give you sweets, you say thank you and move onto the next house. And it was exactly the same when we lived in the UK!

Some people think saying 'Trick or treat' is considered a thread TheWhoe.

I live in a very nice area - encouraging your children to knock on doors and trick or treat is grim imvho.