


There's nothing in the film to suggest Craven knew all along that Gordon was Fester.


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.
