as for "the right stuff for kids" comment.... THIS is what halloween is about... if parents or kids didn't want to see it, they could walk past the house with out stopping... which some people did... we had NO ONE complain (which kinda suprised me) everyone seemed really impressed and curious about it
"How did you get those arms to stay up?"
"What movie is this from?"
The point is we had fun, and it seemed everyone else had fun. I just remember the "scary" houses when I was little, and they kinda sucked... then they disappeared completely. Everyone else on our street only had "ghost cut outs" in their front yard, and fake spider webs on a witch that had crashed into a tree...
Sorry for thinking this, but Halloween isn't SUPPOSTA be cute.... it's supposta scare you... so that's what we did.
(the girl video taping wanted to put out little paper bags with a candle in them.. the bags had little designs cut in them.... then she sprinkled cinnamon all over our pumpkins so they smelled "like fresh pumpkin pie"..... we told her she was stupid... Dr. Satan wouldn't bake pies.... good thing no one walked up to the front door where the pumpkins were.... so halloween went off with out any of her influence)