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?

I don't mind kids dressed as vampires, monsters or an Egyptian mummy - there's an established literary tradition there. Kids dressed as mass murderers though is NOT funny, cute, charming or quirky. It's just wrong. The 'Texas chainsaw massacre' poster needs to seriously rethink what she feels is appropriate for children.
My daughter went to a disco at school last night dressed as a cat. Lots of cats, witches and skeletons - all charming. The kids in masks from 'Scream' brandishing plastic knives - definitely NOT charming and judging by their behaviour they'd seen the films too......

I have kids in school saying to me that their Mom bought a cake tin in the shape of a coffin so they could have a coffin cake. Also another girl her dad made a minature coffin for her birthday party which was at Halloween . Here in a supermarket they had a coffin thing where you pressed a button and it sang "Another one bites the dust"...this is all crazy I think and not suitable for kids. Dressing up is brilliant but its gone too far.

comedancing yes, now somebody please explain how eating coffin cakes celebrates the dead in any way...

northernlurker The stuff sold at supermarkets has really taken it to a whole new level - and not a pleasant one! I had avoid the big supermarkets while shopping or risk kids having nightmares.

Oh the Pottery Barn costumes are too adorable for words. Check out the baby ones!

baby frog

And I'm having twins, so this is absolutely and totally necessary

Thank God northern I thought I was the only one who thought it was completely fucked up.
I think Americans generally have a much gentler, fun approach to Halloween.

I'm with nicesoap. Dressing your 2 year old up as a chain saw wielding mass murderer is sick.
Cute pumpkins or a mummy or whatever if you have to, but as a chain saw massacre?!

My memory of guising at Halloween was that you would dress up as anything you liked. Not necessarily something scary or creepy.

If you went as a witch or a ghost it was definitely a cop out and you probably wouldn't get as many sweeties as somebody with an imaginative costume!

We went out dressed up as all kinds of things. Gangster, Pierrot doll, pantomime horse, robot...

errr halloween is supposed to be macabre and creepy. Thats the whole idea.

I think Americans generally have a much gentler, fun approach to Halloween.

Yes they do, seems more atmospheric too.

branleuse yes but there is a whole range of macbre and creepy.

sanatna that is amazing, so cute

marcipex

I find the amercian decorations are usually better than here.

why dont we get more imported?

I'd find that lot rocking up on my doorstep creepier than a mini Leatherface, gastrognome!

Childhood and 'macabre' is not a good mix. It's just horrible and it shows you how desensitised we've become that so many people think the gore etc is 'essential'.

ir1na. (Whispers) thats my son in law