AIBU to find this halloe’en display’ offensive?

I think the same as you do, it’s totally horrible 🤬
It was in the news the other day that a soft play area for tots somewhere had the same human shaped objects tightly wrapped in black plastic hanging within the area, hung by the neck or the ankles.Parents complained so they were removed.

It sounds awful. What is wrong with people?

It wouldn't bother me at all, to be honest - but I can see why some people would get offended by it.

I see Mums with very young kids browsing the Halloween stuff
Such as blood stained axes, full size skeletons and grotesque masks.
I would keep all young ones away from these displays, enough to give them nightmares.
The best Halloween displays are pumpkins and Autumn leaves and black cats.
I really do think that violent scenes desensitise.

Not sure it would bother me either to be honest - might have to see it though.

I agree completely! It is very bad taste indeed. I am not keen on Halloween but tolerate it within reason. Your neighbours display is distasteful. There is more than enough violence in our society without promoting it at Halloween! Ghosts , spiders and and witches are just about acceptable. I find it shocking to see such distasteful displays at Halloween.

Shelflife

I agree completely! It is very bad taste indeed. I am not keen on Halloween but tolerate it within reason. Your neighbours display is distasteful. There is more than enough violence in our society without promoting it at Halloween! Ghosts , spiders and and witches are just about acceptable. I find it shocking to see such distasteful displays at Halloween.

This.

Our local coffee shop always has a lot of Halloween decorations including skeletons and huge spiders. I watched some young girls a few days ago shrieking with laughter prodding the skeletons. They obviously have no idea what a skeleton actually is. They also enjoyed the spiders and making the blood spattered Herman Munster wave his arms around and shout.

Oreo I totally agree that we get de-sensitised by violence but unfortunately I think that ship sailed back in the 70s.

Yes I agree I ve got a house near me with the tightly packed black plastic covered body hanging by the ankles out the window, truly gruesome and nasty
It might not bother you some but surely it’s not a very good message for young impressionable children to see plastic encased heads and bodies, tied up in submissive roles not only gruesome but what if a small kid tries to tie their sibling in a black plastic bag !!!!

Not sure if that ship sailed in the 70’s AreWeThereYet as I was only a young child then and Halloween was quite low key, and no kids I knew were allowed to watch anything violent on tv.

That’s a good point BlueBelle about kids and bin bags😲

Halloween is an American9 thing. I can’t be bothered with any of it.🙄

I would hate to see any of that, around here it is cobwebs and a light in squash. No blood, axes or gore

Oreo

Not sure if that ship sailed in the 70’s AreWeThereYet as I was only a young child then and Halloween was quite low key, and no kids I knew were allowed to watch anything violent on tv.

Oreo We watched violence on TV in the 70s - even in cartoons, western films, war films, crime films. None of them as violent as the films are now, of course, and not so much gore.

The first computer games aimed at the public were released in the 70s - nearly all of them involved shooting things and killing things to increase your score. Even then I remember discussions on whether children were affected by violent films and games. I would have been in my teens then.

DiamondLily

Halloween is an American9 thing. I can’t be bothered with any of it.🙄

Halloween originated here as All Hallows Eve. It was a Pagen Festival.

Mexicans have Day of the Dead.

The USA have taken elements of both.

I wasn’t allowed anything violent as a child and wasn’t even aware of it.
Cartoons were fine, Tom and Jerry, didn’t see it as real.The only game I remember was space invaders.

I love the velvet pumpkins I bought a few years ago and a lovely Autumn wreath.❤️

I knew a woman who was an educational psychologist and she was determined that her son (who was the same age as my daughter) would not be allowed anything violent, no toy guns, nothing like that. Imagine her horror when she saw him running around my friend's garden chasing her daughter and mine with a stick and pretending to shoot them with it!

This was posted on our local FB page, not sure about it 🤫

It does sound particularly gruesome, OP. Whatever happened to good old ghosts, bats and witches?

It sounds horrible and distasteful. I hate horror, I cannot watch horror films. I think, like porn, this extreme violence comes form the availability of really vile torture and horror films online.

But what has amazed me this year is Hallowe'en decorations going up on the outside of houses and on fences and walls, weeks before halloween. Some have been up for a week or more.

I went past one house this week where the outside decorations, entirely decorous, spiders webs, big enough to be made from rope and extend from bedroom windows to garden, pumpkins and lights, must have cost £00s and up a good two weeks in advance. They will no doubt come down and be immediately replaced by Christmas decorations - which will also have cost £00s.

Tizliz

This was posted on our local FB page, not sure about it 🤫

I think this is hilarious, as long as no one takes it seriously!!

Tizliz

This was posted on our local FB page, not sure about it 🤫

Surely just a joke of the ‘black comedy’ variety?
I was guilty last year of buying a plastic skeleton - an enormous ‘spider’ one, which is daft anyway, since spiders don’t have skeletons.
The Gdcs loved it, anyway. I dare say it’ll be decorating their front garden again this year.

Tizliz

This was posted on our local FB page, not sure about it 🤫

I think it's funny too. As M0nica says, so long as no one takes it seriously. There was a time when I wouldn't even have considered that anyone would take it seriously...