I hate Halloween!
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Although it’s fun to dress up and go to parties, so much of the holiday seems to depend on gore, violence, evil scary creatures, blood. Lots of blood. This year it seems the hardest with so many having died from Covid but all the streaming media stations show all kinds of horror shows right now. We are in political division, people fight on social media and in person and I know Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming up which are supposed to be happy and jolly, but I’m not even bothering with the horror art contest because I don’t want to go there psychologically. Wish there was some happier, brighter holiday right now where horror wasn’t such a huge part of it.
I actually carved a pumpkin this year with my boyfriend, then put it out on my balcony and a aqrirrel soon came up to start eating it lol. 
So cute! Now THAT is Halloween to me. Just a rant...
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We have no such problems in the UK. A few people with cobwebs in garden or the odd bloody crime scene front door...
Mostly though just no petrol and no food on the shelves in the supermarket.
Growing up, didn't really see much of the gore or skeletons for Halloween, or cared for it because my mother disliked that. (Wasn't exposed to it much until I went to school.) Usually, as far as decorations go, for us it's the same autumnal ones as Thanksgiving but with the kitty, bats, owls, crows, spiders, and pumpkins, etc. Even the turkey and scarecrow just all hang out with them too. X'D
As an adult, I dislike gore because I immediately get put off by how unhygienic and unrealistic it tends to be. Never been fond of violence either. So yeah, I prefer to focus on the cutesy stuff.
in Australia we mostly see it as a money grab by shops trying to cash in on an American tradition.
sadly the most obnoxious of parents seem to seize upon it as yet another way to parade their kids around the neighbourhood too so I stay quiet lights out and don't answer the door that evening (they cannot even get the rules right about only visiting welcoming houses)
The fault is really with the movies offered at this time and to be honest, the products sold here. Many are really gruesome. At most (grown up) parties here, women dress as sexy French maids, or superheros and the guys are mostly superheroes; it looks more like Comic-Con cosplay than Halloween but I hate all the gruesome movies and that the art contest is focused on horror. We have enough horror in real life.
As halloween landed here just some 20 years ago, it feels wrong and more so for my 80yr mom whom is used to All Hallows Eve to be sacred religious holiday when one takes candles to loved ones that have passed away and honors their memory.
Halloween has made it into a carnival.
That's a big squirrel or a little pumpkin!
Which is a horror story in itself. Then there's the meat shortage, Mince pie shortage, lorry driver shortage, bus driver shortage... I expect there's going to be a shortage of shortages at some point (say that when you're drunk... lol!)
Our cat was pts a month ago today. So much has changed with all of us since then. We're not looking forward to Christmas.
As for Halloween. We've got posters to stick in the windows. So no one tricks or treats on our door.
I love horror films, but so many are just totally over the top these days. Some shock factors are just totally unnecessary.
Both lol! It's about 6-7 inches. The first time I ever carved a pumkin. Started small!
The video was better. That's a screenshot. Then my cat scared him away. But he keeps coming back. Glad I made him happy!
I like Halloween, the costume parties and all that, but I like keeping the gore and such more cartoon-like in apperance. People consider doing that 'kids stuff' but it's just keeping it light and fun and avoiding unintended calls to the police. For example, this year, in the next county over, the police got called to a Halloween display in someone's yard because it looked "too real". I also don't like that some yards in my neightborhood had Halloween displays up, big ones, by the end of August; because you know, kids are always so patient!
I wish they'd rename Halloween "Comicween." Make it more fun and lighthearted .
it certainly seems to be the time when the most dark products hit the store too
horror is one thing but this looks disturbingly like self ending
It is a pity that the PC+ sale happens at this time of the year. Basically half the new releases are horror related. Fine if that stuff is what you like. but pretty boring for those of us with no interest in horror, zombies etc.
Yes, Cosplayween or Autumnween would be much better. Especially in these times when we need the most cheering up ever. I think gruesome horror stuff is WAY worse than sexy stuff.
Maybe half, but then there's rare items that are hardly ever seen
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If it helps, its the one holiday I was raised to not celebrate. My grandmother said, 'we dont' celebrate evil in this house.' So as an adult, that stood with me. Christmas on the other hand, I love that holiday.
Personally, I love Halloween; I was born in October so "birthday, candy, costumes, autumn colors, horror. My dad was in law enforcement. i worked in patholgy for a long time and parasitology for too long for dead bodies or body horror to phase me. I am much more horrified by the sight of a dog licking someone on the face (ivermectin for both of them) than a silly horror movie. Ironically, my niece is phobic about butterfies; she went to a zoo that had a butterfly room when she was a tottler and hated and feared them since them. She thinks of them as trampy moths.
I love Halloween and the nature-connected traditions behind it (no, not burning the wicker man), and I love spooky stuff as well - but the gore and violence and undisguised sadism of today is putting me completely off as well. I was so pleased at first when DAZ seemed to be honoring Halloween this year a lot more than last, with lots of new items and the contest and such, but way, WAY too many of those products and contest renders are, to me, just plain gross and awful. I wish there was a filter for the gallery that prevented me from stumbling upon them accidentally again and again. For now, I've stopped browsing the gallery altogether, and I scroll through debut new real quickly the first time, to check for any new poor disgusting creatures out of the corner of my eye. There's really something so wrong with societies that go for this kind of thing, in my view ... It's like everybody forgets that violence and torture do happen to real people in real life, and there's nothing whatsovever amusing or entertaining about that.
Not me, I love Halloween, monsters, vamps, darkness, costumes, candy the works, oh and Dog kisses on the face too, sorry Nemesis10.
I was a goth for a long time, and it was all my total bag. I love horror movies and the supernatural.
We decorate starting in October, and culminate on the 31rst when we switch to Generic Fall decor.
I'm only sorry not to see much in the way of Trick-Or-Treating. That sort of has dropped off since the Pandemic.
ALWAYS been my least favorite "holiday". Althought I have a few gruesome creatures for DS, most of them are aliens or the classic werewolf or hunchback type ;).
Laurie
Yep, Dog kisses... parasitology and knowing a vet have long ago placed that on my ick list!
man, I used to LOOOOVVVVEEE halloween, the scarier and gruesomeer the better IMO. When i was little, my dad would let me decorate the outside and even give me money for it and sometime help. We lived on a corner lot, so I went all out with graves, tombstones, bodies hanging from trees, etc. I also used to volunteer for parties, dressing up as dracula, a mummy, wolfman, etc.When I was in college i worked for a professional haunted house 2 halloweens in a roow, it was epic scaring the crap out of people AND getting paid for it, LOL
When I was a musician, I remember some epic halloween parties, one in particular at a strip club - good times.
it's easy for me to seperate the make believe horror of a holiday with actual horror in the world, which is probably why I used to enjoy the holiday so much
This is the only holiday I legitimately enjoy. I watch scary/gory movies year round but this month is the time where I try to do 31 days of horror and only watch those movies, nothing else will be turned on in my house.
I DO kinda like the new werebat...only cause I think he's kinda cute (yea, I think bats are kinda cute...lol). The demon tho....no, just no ;)
Laurie
I can understand that I think, just as I enjoy a lot of the goth aesthetic; and I also love LOVE decorating for Halloween, with blinky ghosts and scary door bells and all that really silly stuff (and my little nieces adore their auntie for that which is a very nice side effect). I just can't deal with the vicious and gory stuff as I seem to lack the ability to separate that you described. And because of that, I wish places like the DAZ gallery would give me a little more leeway to manage not accidentally seeing things I then can't unsee for days on end.
(Please imagine quote of post concerning werebat here, haven't figured out mutiple quotes yet) Bats now, on the other hand, they are totally cute, and fascinating! They often fly over our garden on summer evenings, so unbelievably silent. The werebat is more gross again, in my view; can't look at it properly though to make sure, for above reason. But I don't like looking at many insects either, and they're still mighty fine and important animals, so there you go ... It's probably a pillar of society up there on the rooftops, that werebat ...
Edit: @AllenArt's got it right, the werebat is really kinda sweet, I mistook the demon for it. Uuugh, now THAT really IS horrible, the poor thing ...
For me, it's all about Pumpkins. Like the OP, when I leave the pumpkins outside, local critters like squirrels here, too, like to gnaw at the pumpkins. Pulling the pulp and seeds out of them is about all the gore I can take. The ghastly themes that crop up this time of year just get worse and worse, in ever more fiendish ways, which has nothing to do with the shortening of daylight and cooling season perhaps increasing the supernatural of nature. I wasn't permitted to go trick or treating as a child, because my parents called it "begging". As a young adult, I wore some homemade costumes for parties, which nobody objected to, such as a mermaid, when I had to be loaded into the hatch of the car, and then carried around. I could stand or sit, but only take tiny steps from my mermaid tail. Wore strategic seaweeds and beads on the top. Very popular, won the local pub award one year. But here and now, there are no children or teens who want to trick or treat in our neighborhood...too dark and spoooky! We don't need fake scary stuff. It's dark, it's lonely, and the neighbors are not fond of strangers coming to their houses, and we have great horned owls and bats at night, coyotes in the bushes, maybe bears,....oooooooooo! Or maybe that guy in the dark car looking for his lost puppy...We just light up the carved pumpkins with battery op candles, and do have a bowl of wrapped candies, because when spirits call, it is wise to have gifts...
Just a reminder to please avoid political and religious discussions.
Still disappointed we don't have 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'-style vampiric forehead crests/ridges for G8F, even though G3 received them, but there's still time...
Also, nothing's preventing you from entering the art contest with a comical/parody theme. :)
Heck, 'Ghost' is one of the most famous supernatural films, ever and that was largely a romance.
This.
Personally I find your average film with a slasher, haunted doll, or what have you far less existentially scary than the 50 million police procedurals/detective shows that seem to posit that there's a murderer hiding in every shrubbery. (okay I find both silly, but only one of those is going to convince my aunt that Denmark is just full of murder)
Autumn is my favorite season and I've always loved the pumpkins and apples and hay rides and all that stuff that comes with it. The whole harvest thing and the various nature-themed traditions and festivals that come with it...some of which influenced stuff we still see today with Halloween. In terms of the holiday itself, we don't get into the really scary or gory stuff...I can't do with the nightmares. I like the campy, cheeky stuff. Every year I have to watch 'Hocus Pocus' and 'Practical Magic'. Then right after the holiday, I can start getting excited about Christmas (it's more Yule for me than Christmas) and all the pretty decorations.
I should have done an entry to the contest...one that celebrates that happy and silly side of Halloween...I just didn't have the energy.
And yes, please save your pumpkins for the wildlife! Squirrels and birds and deer will thank you!