User blog comment:Bountybear/What makes something scary?/@comment-9584883-20150115125557

To me, Gore is not as scary except for this movie called "Most Disturbed Person On the Planet" or mdpope. I can't bring myself to watch much of it, and I've seen some pretty horrible things in my life. However, in stories, hands down for me it's the psychological horror, the suspense and build-up. This is why I feel that horror films from the 50's, 60's & 70's were the best. They may be slow and boring by the standards of todays youth who expect constant adrenaline. I think the film "Carnival of Souls" is a good example of horror. For the longest time, I feared the Elephant Man as a child. It did'nt help that I saw it in the theater as a child, in the front row of an old haunted theater. Ahhhh..... childhood memeories.