How necessary do you think the gore is on Halloween?

I remember Casper. I think the blood and gore is a must have for Halloween. Even when I was younger I loved Chucky, and Child's Play. When I was younger I watched tons of bloody movies like, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street., Freddy vs. Jason, and many more. I think that if parents don't want their children watching them then just don't let them. There are plenty of Halloween movies for children in the video stores. Parents just have to go rent them or buy them for their children. I think there could never be too much blood and gore, it makes the movie that much better. The more the better.

especially those movies in titled: "HELL BOY" hehehe

I wonder how it affects the little kids? I went all out one year with decorating for Halloween. I dressed myself up as a witch with the green face, no warts or blood, but my dress was all black and the big pointy hat. I had bails of hay out front with a stuffed dummy with a scary mask. Cob webs with big black spiders and the fake cemetery in the yard. I had skeletons on sticks all the way up to the door. I actually sat under the tree at my front door with a big witches cauldron with dry ice (water poured on it gives of the appearance of mist) in it to have the fog affect. Scary music was playing from the window, with screams and creaking doors, ect... The majority of the children loved it, but a few very small children were very frightened and wouldn't even come up to me. I think that it depends on the gore. I'm not into the fake blood stuff and never allowed my children to dress like that. My mother never allowed it either. My kids love scary movies, but weren't allowed to watch them when they were young, not until they were into the teenage years. Well one of them doesn't like them still. It has been difficult with the last child. She sees things that I wouldn't have allowed with the older children but due to the age differences it's inevitable;e that she sees it now. In fact she wants to be the bride of chuckie this year. I'm doing my best to talk her out of it, but am loosing the battle. I do think that parents must be responsible in what they allow their children to see. If your child is easily scared then it's the parents responsibility to explain to the child how fake it all is. Our youngest has been taught and told that movies are make believe they stem from a story that someone wrote, a warped mind absolutely, but that all the stuff that looks like blood is fake. The arms and legs being severed is fake, the screams are fake. The stabbings are fake. Hollywood is great with special affects and making something appear to be real but it just a "good show" if your into those movies. I'm not and never watch any of them. I hate the parents that put on scary masks and scare their small children.

I actually am still a fan of many of the kid's halloween specials like hocus pocus and such and I've never been one to steer towards the gory movies but when the Saw series came out, that all changed for me. They were so realistically gory and zereoed in on many things that everyday people are scared of the most. I found them completely riveting and I became a serious fan of the series.

When I was a girl we bought magazines with Casper as the main character. Now masks as horrible and expensive and parents get in the race for horror and buy all sorts of bloody costumes. I´m not fond of Halloween although I had fun with it when I lived as a child in the US. But now Halloween has come to my country as another cultural colonization and our own witches and ghosts are disappearing from the mind of the younger generation. It happened with our national food and it is happening with our culture. Sorry. I changed the subject. But I do think that we all liked to dress with costumes when we were small, but it would be better an international day where angels, princesses and elves could be seen on the streets.

I always thought Halloween was a holiday for kids to dress up as their favorite Halloween character and go trick or treating with their neighborhood. But now, when Halloween closes in, there's always a new horror movie filled with blood and gore out in the cinemas. have you realized that? I thought it was suppose to be an innocent day for kids to get sugar high during the night. But now, kids are accepting the idea of blood and gore and it's really unappealing. I really want those innocent Halloween days back.

Necessary? No. But as the kids get older and more mature, the costumes do. Which is when blood and dismemberment and other "gross" ideas come into play. Most kids go through anaphase where they're fascinated with the morbid. Younger kids still tend toward the cartoon characters and classic Halloween costumes. As far as movies, hollywood has always released a new scary movie around Halloween. Tv has always showed horror films around Halloween. Tv has also always shown more kid friendly fare, like Casper, Grinch Night and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. As for the gore in movies, it has nothing to do with Halloween. Somewhere along the way, movies like the classic Halloween where almost no visible blood, but a lot of scary ideas and suspense scared the bejesus out of people don't cut it anymore. People seem to want gore, so Hollywood gives them gore. Horror movies are released all year around.

I get tired of the gore, especially now that there seems to be more spooky stuff than fun fall festivals. I more about pumpkins, candy and mums - I loved Casper!

I think the gore on Halloween is terribly overdone. As a matter of fact we have plenty of it year-round in our movie theaters and on television every day. I think that it molds peoples' minds and has created a lot of the problems we have today. I would much rather Halloween be a time of Fun and Happy make-believe rather than gore and horror. If there was any way to change it, I'd help lead the group!

i remember halloween as a tradition in our house of who we could scare every single year it was me gran and she fell for it lol.. but some of the scarey movies i remember the most is nightmare on elm street which was scary enough when it first came out, but some of the film`s nowadys which are made i wound`nt even contimplate watchin! any one remember any of there first scarey movie, and the effect`s it had on them?