If she did, don't you think a woman as greedy and calculating as her would have used that knowledge (and Fester) to her advantage, like holding him hostage for a huge payday, or for at least what would have probably a huge reward from an immensely grateful Gomez? There's nothing in the film to suggest Craven knew all along that Gordon was Fester. Craven didn't know the amnesiac she found in the Bermuda Triangle was Fester Addams: she just knew he wasn't her natural son.Had she not tried some half-baked con of him pretending to be himself, and actually told the truth in the first place that she found him with amnesia, it's entirely plausible that 'Gordon' wouldn't have started looking at his family situation so closely, and she could have managed to get away Scot-free. This ends up biting her in the ass when he finds he highly prefers being surrounded by a loving family of equally strange gothics than having an abusive mother who only saw him as a tool, and ultimately gets him his memory of actually being Fester back when he's struck by lighting while trying to close the hurricane book. In the first film, Abigail Craven's plan to steal the Addams's fortune is to play off 'Gordon' as Fester.

(Of course, its still possible that the act was non-lethal.)

Not quite: when the family is moving out, you can see what looks like black paint splattered on the front door and the porch it's left over from whatever they poured on the carolers.

They're supposed to be a bit disturbing.Isn't it still rather disturbing that they fantasize about murder?.They're not evil enough to actually kill someone, just morbid and playing on the idea of killing people. Or at least cool down to a non-lethal temperature before it hit them, as we see the water has a fairly long way to fall in both the movie, and the comic. When The Addams Family is seen with a bubbling cauldron to get rid of carolers, it is entirely possible that, if it was cold enough outside, and the pot was filled with water, that the water would disappear into steam before it hit the carolers, leaving them unharmed.

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