User blog comment:Bountybear/Is gore scary?/@comment-24352864-20140320221508

I think it depends on the context. If it is a written work, I don't find it scary at all. Disturbing, revolting even, but not scary. I mean, you could kill off a character but if that character is just foil or background, do you really need to describe the way he was killed down to the very last detail? Movies that use gore sometimes work because it shows images at least, but too much of it just makes it look like a giant slaughterhouse without much essence to it.