Our is all front yard, mostly 'display' stuff, with some interaction from year to year. There is alot that is 'spooky' looking, but we skip on gore, blood, witchcraft and coffins. We do lots of skeletons and then whatever the theme is. There is usually one or two remote popups or startles.

The evening is mostly a crowd gathered in the front yard, sidewalk, street around our house. A neighbor-night-out sorta. I stand in themed, but non scary clothes amongst the crowd and chitchat. I remote trigger the popups as I see 'appropriate' TOTs walk by it.

We have a candy bowl at the sidewalk for those too young/nervous to walk up the dispenser.

And yes, we have three levels of handouts - normal, cheapo, and special. The non-neighborhood folks who swoom in for candy alone get cheapo and closer friends get special. Everyone else gets normal. Yes - we are guilty of TOT Profiling.

We rarely see folks 'dragging' their kids up to our yard, but then again it is not really a walk-thru. What we dislike alot (but can sorta understand on school nights), is the parent who 'rushes' a kid along. Kinda like the goal of the evening is to manke as many streets/candy as you can - versus hangin out at our house (one of the few who go all out and often have a game or something you can 'do')...last year we had a laser tag type of game incorporated into the Alien Invasion theme. Like Halloween is such an inconvenience for them. I see walking up and down streets for a few bits of candy as an inconveience, if I saw a place like ours - it would be the place to stay and spend some time. Anyway just our reaction I suppose after all the hard work.