Happy Halloween

Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame. Halloween is the time when the young and the young at heart unleash their inner heroes or monsters in fancy costumes.

How many numerous love stories have begun from Halloween party where a hoax busty soccer player and a hoax potbellied soccer coach fall incurably in love to be chained forever in holy matrimony till death does them apart.

While this may be the pretty face of Halloween, there is an ugly side to it too. This holiday second only to Christmas in the minds of many kids is more than a celebration of the most deranged characters pop culture has to offer. It is a gore fest that has kids as young as six unleash their inner monsters which emerge from their nightly dreams to possess them for a day and get them those mouth-watering candies. Those eye popping costumes, blood-smeared chain saws and spiked killing gloves – “bloody, sadistic, nightmare-inducing Halloween costumes are indeed being made and marketed for kids and no one seems to care. Surely Halloween costumes have evolved from being “sickly sweet to just plain sick.”

Question that must bug one and all is what is the point of all the realistic gore – for the oh-so young anyway? I think wearing these costumes and being exposed to human depravity even in a ‘fun’ context, doesn’t scare kids so much as desensitize them to brutal violence. Numerous number of gunning incidents in schools in the past have brought to light that kids are less able to distinguish between real world and fictional brutality than grown ups. So to conclude I am throwing a question to readers out there that for these underage and undead young adults : Are some costumes to gory for kids?