User blog comment:Bountybear/Is gore scary?/@comment-24077689-20140320033913

It really heavily depends on context. Gore in Hostel? Not so scary, also Hostel was a bad movie.

Gore in Saw? Getting marginally more scary.

Gore in Cabin Fever? Getting scarier.

It all depends on situation. There are a lot of stories with gratuitous gore on this site, almost all of them are bad because they use it for shock and nothing else.