Disgusting Halloween decorations

[ViaRia01]

I will hold my hands up and say I’m really not a fan of Halloween so of course my view is a bit swayed by that. At the same time, I have no problem with people enjoying their fun and games, dressing up, pumpkins, and all that - it’s just not for me.

well… except today I’ve seen a house in my village with decorations that I think are just too much, distasteful, not appropriate for children (or even teens or vulnerable adults), and… well, I’ll describe it and you can let me know whether IABU. It includes:

a real car parked on the driveway with red ‘blood’ all over the bonnet and what looks like a body underneath. Also a body in a body bag at hanging from an upstairs window.

there’s also various cobwebs, skeletons, pumpkins etc that I have no problem with really.

I have no intention of “doing something about it” and I know it’s not up to me what other people do to their houses, so I don’t think I am actually being unreasonable… but I’m wondering whether others (especially any Halloween lovers out there) agree that this seems to be going too far?

YANBU at all, it’s so inconsiderate. Fair enough behind closed doors but in view of anyone passing by it’s just unnecessary IMO.

I struggle with Halloween. Partly because a dear child in my family died suddenly at halloween . So, while pumpkins and witches and the like don’t bother me, costumes which depict human corpses, childlike undead characters or medical things and what have you are a bit triggering. So imagine a scene depicting a car crash would affect so many people that have witnessed these or lost loved ones this way. I understand the fun that people have with the festival , but it’s very easy to keep the cartoon, silly type costumes and decorations without using things that are upsetting. See also horror makeup that looks like scars and disfigurements. Insensitive.

I love a party and I love decorations. I tend to go all out but I wouldn't do this. My general rule is keep the full on stuff where invited guests only can see and make sure anything visible to the general public at large is very obviously fake and within reasonable boundaries of taste, decency and offensiveness (I know that's a huge variable in itself).

YANBU. I love Halloween but not the horrible stuff with blood etc.

I love it. I enjoy horror movies and gore though.

I don't mind Halloween. Imloved it as a child. But skulls and skeletons scattered aroind n gardens are just not on IMHO.

I was thinking just the same thing on my way home from work.
I saw a house with hanging ghosts and corpses but the worst bit was the front door and driveway covered in caution hazard tape.
It looked like the scene where 2 women were stabbed to death in the next road to ours.
I wonder how triggering these things are people who have lost loved ones in tragic circumstances.
Pumpkins and ghosts and plastic skeletons fine.

A neighbour has a baby doll covered in rags and bloodied, tied to their front pillar. I think you have to be a bit disturbed to label that or anything like it as a "decoration".

We love Halloween in our house. I think youre being a bit OTT on this

YABU.

YANBU - I don't like the 'realistic gore' type Halloween things at all. I'm all for the cutesy kids costumes (spider / pumpkin / witch / cat / ghost), trick or treating, we've got loads of decorations up this year - string of spiders, window stickers, black cat in a hat, glowing ghost, pumpkin lights etc because my kids are excited about Halloween, but I really don't like the realistic looking icky things. I guess it's different for different people, but I'm just not a fan. I don't like horror movies either though!

I like Halloween but I hate that kind of thing.

I wish we could keep to the "all souls day", "festival to commemorate the dead" "enter the darker half of the year" origins so it's sort of spooky but not in a negative way. I wish it hadn't become serial killers, slashers and dismembered bodies.

YANBU

A girl on my instagram dressed herself and her 1yo as a playboy bunny. You could see what she'd had for breakfast. Her 4 yo dressed up as Hugh Hefner. Her sister dressed as a slutty Barbie. All to go to a party full of kids. They are a ghastly lot though so shouldn't be surprised.

You're right about the graphic stuff though, it's just taken too far.

Long gone are the days we bought a witches hat, some green face paint, plastic nose and nails and dressed in a bin bag!

It's Halloween and a lot of you will have bought fake skeletons made of plastic to decorate your homes and gardens with.

After Halloween many of these plastic skeletons end up discarded which is really bad for the environment.

This year I will only be using natural skeletons I sourced locally.

I love Halloween and I decorate including window holograms.
My window holograms are either cartoony or generic ghosts/pumpkin headed horseman etc.
some of the hologram packs had images of bodies hanging from nooses etc - completely awful and inappropriate.
I think people just don’t think it through.

You are not being OTT - it is entirely gross.

Can you explain how murder and car deaths are related to Halloween?

I totally agree OP.

@Jewelspun 😂

2yrs ago, a house down the street had a 'scene' of someone stabbing another person, blood, gore etc. Soon after they put it up, Sir David Amess the politican was stabbed to death. There was outrage in the street, because many people thought it had been put up because of that incident and in very poor taste.

I cannot stand the whole Halloween, so clearly taints my view anyways.

I don't mind halloween such as ghosts and the like, not car crashes and murder victims. That isn't halloween its making light of real events in some cases. Maybe I'm getting old though.

I blame John Carpenter.

And you shall know exactly how much of an insensitive arseholes your neighbours are by how or if they decorate for Halloween. Public service really

Is the one at the window a body? As in not a skeleton but looks like a person hanged?
That would be awful to see

Haha good one

I love love Halloween but even that pushes boundaries for me. Just too much, and I love gory, scary movies.