A mum-of-five has turned her brood into the real-life Addams Family - converting her Surrey home into a house of horrors for four months every year. From July to October, Sarah Adams - which is her real surname - lets loose her "inner child" and decorates her house with horror dolls, cobwebs and pumpkins for Halloween.
During the family's favourite time of year, spooky movies run non-stop on their TV, surrounded by more than £4,000 worth of decorations. Sarah, her partner Sam Cullip, 37, a plasterer, and her five children who share her Adams surname – Alfie, 17, Jamie, 14, Kobie, 10, Bonnie, seven, and Archie, five – love dressing up as the Addams Family and look strikingly similar to the macabre TV clan.
But even once Halloween is over, the decor is cleared to make way for a spooky Christmas, complete with Chucky – the serial killer doll from the Child's Play slasher film franchise – who has a cute festive hat and candy cane. Explaining that she missed out on Halloween when she was younger, Sarah, 36, said: "Halloween was never really celebrated at home or generally in the 90s. So when I had children, it was my inner child coming out.
