At first glance, Halloweentown seems like a whimsical, downright idyllic place full of friendly zombies and wisecracking skeletons. As an adult, however, you can spot a few subtle hints that all is not well. There's a cop who walks by, giving Marnie and Dylan a mean look while swinging around his nightstick, clearly looking to bust some heads, which indicates that there's some kind of crime going on that's being met with violence.
Even more upsetting, though, is when Aggie's friend Harriet mentions that she's been volunteering at the local "headless shelter," baking muffins that its residents can't eat. No heads means no mouths, after all. The whole thing is played for laughs, but, for the grown-up audience, this has some disturbing implications. Being decapitated is apparently such an uncontrolled epidemic here that it requires shelters, where its residents are tended to by cheerful volunteers who laugh at their inability to eat. But hey, no heads means no mouth, so at least you can't hear their endless tortured screams!
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