Ali Spagnola spent an arm and a leg on Halloween décor.
But the do-it-yourself diva makes no bones about dropping $800 to deck out her 12-foot-tall skeleton, Steve, in 500,0000 dazzling disco tiles — despite shade from digital trolls who’ve deemed the sparking structure a “hazard.”
“Everyone online is worried about Steve causing fires,” Spagnola, 39, a crafting content creator from Los Angeles, told The Post.
Footage of the haute head-turner has scared up a staggering 6.1 million TikTok views from stylishly spooked audiences.
But a few folks fear the freakishly fab feature, made of a half-million mini mirrors, will catch sun rays that could beam off of its reflective surface and concentrate onto flammable objects in and around her home.
It’s a valid concern as baby car seat mirrors have been known to spark a light in extreme heat.
But Spagnola insists that her shiny spectacle is totally safe.
“He’s not actually dangerous,” she said of Steve, a namesake of Steve Rubell, the late co-owner of NYC’s famed Studio 54 nightclub. Spagnola even tapped a “YouTube scientist” to confirm her creation’s low-risk for igniting flames.
“The disco mirrors are scattering light in all different directions,” she said. “So it’s not concentrating sunbeams, which would cause a fire.”
Inferno fears notwithstanding, Steve’s eye-catching glitz has made him a local hotshot.
“My neighbors are totally cool about him being in my backyard,” said Spagnola, admitting, however, that the glistening ghoul towers over her fence and peeks into the lawn next door.
For the inconvenience, she’s welcoming residents on her block, as well as trick-or-treaters, to snap “skelfies,” or skeleton selfies, with Steve during spooky season and beyond.
“I may keep him up through December,” said Spagnola. The brunette spent nine days and over 70 hours adorning the faux remains — which she first spray painted platinum to hide any white spots — in disco discs. She purchased 14 bill orders of the sparkly adhesive shingles from Amazon for $344.82.
But the millennial, like many Halloween fiends in recent years, fought to get her hands on the coveted Home Depot decoration last October.
She ultimately had to snag the $300 must-have on a secondary marketplace for a bone-chilling $450.
However, this Halloween, thrill-seekers can breathe a sigh of relief as the home improvement retailer’s recently announced a “huge restock” of the statuesque stick figures.
Spagnola hopes her funky display inspires fans of fright-night to dare to be different.
“Culturally, artistically, we’re all sort of coming together [as a society] and creating similar things because we’re all vibing in a connected world,” said the visionary, who tipped her hat to Beyoncé for helming the disco ball fashion trend.
The 32-time Grammy winner launched the look-at-me movement during her flashy Renaissance World Tour in 2023.
“So, vibes-wise, said Spagnola with a laugh, “I guess Beyoncé and I are connected.”
