When did Halloween stop being scary?

[kdslittlebro]

When movies visuals got better, now you can get scary year-round

But the movies aren’t scary anymore either the holiday has never been scary to me, but it’s all about exposure imo.

When you grown you’ve probably seen/lived real shyt scarier than a haunted house, fake ass ghosts/demons, and all that, versus being a kid where everything is still new and uncertain.

I changed my mindset to just hopefully be entertained/tense more than scared of anything fictional

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

When you showed up, party is over people. Go home.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

1) we grew up

2) when adults swiped it from kids and made it about themselves.

This society is mentally, still stuck in the summer after HS graduation

 

[Laidbackman]

Being a child in the ghetto, Halloween was like Christmas, with all that free candy.

But my daughter, her first Halloween was scary. I couldn't understand it. I nearly blamed her mother.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

When I was young Halloween was spooky as shyt. Creepy ass commercials about the haunted houses, especially one in Long Branch Nj. I would be watching sat morning cartoons eating cereal on the floor I was mad young and a commercial like this would pop up. Terrify my ass.



Then a scary movie was always released in October just in time for Halloween. Close your eyes for the previews!!

Trick or treating was scary and that was in Queens NY. I can’t imagine Halloween in the country and suburbs as a kid.

Now that shyt is like a cosplay and hoe convention.

I think the internet showed everyone there is no supernatural spirits such as ghosts. Most monsters are just demented CACs, no such thing as mummy’s, jersey devil, vampires, wolf man etc

I went to Neptune.

 

[Geek Nasty]

This is real but it started a long time ago. Used to be kids were supposed to dress up as creepy ghosts And goblins. They were supposed to be mischievous spirits. Pay your tribute in candy or the spirits will curse you with pranks. “Trick or treat” was a threat

 

[Maximus Rex]

Halloween was never scary

 

[Diddly Drogba]

It's still scary if you know where to go

 

[Geek Nasty]

I am tripping on the fact they they let us trick or treat at night, unsupervised. We were like 9, out til like 10pm, getting lost, looking for more houses giving out candy.

Parents prolly get arrested for doing that now.

This is one of the saddest parts about it to me. Everyone got together as kids and went trick-or-treating no adults. Most people coming to my house are parents with their kids.

 

[Richard Glidewell]

At some point the commercialization overpowered any fear or hesitancy about the holiday. It just became another mass consumer event

 

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But the movies aren’t scary anymore either the holiday has never been scary to me, but it’s all about exposure imo.

When you grown you’ve probably seen/lived real shyt scarier than a haunted house, fake ass ghosts/demons, and all that, versus being a kid where everything is still new and uncertain.

I changed my mindset to just hopefully be entertained/tense more than scared of anything fictional

This is also because you have been desensitized to gore and horror through good visuals and other entertainment outlets

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Damn how old are you

48

 

[BlackAchilles]

OP bit this from Mean Girls

 

[justPa]

Pagan rituals, I'm cool on. Won't teach my kid(s) that nonsense

 

[50CentStan]

When we had kids