Gore or Suspense

[Li H'Sen Chang]

What do you like better for your horror do you want a lot of blood and gore from violence or would you rather have a lot of creepy suspense and cat jumping out scares.

[Murfreesboro]

Suspense and an eerie atmosphere for me.

[Pumpkin56]

I prefer suspense as well. For me, less is usually more because my imagination can certainly make up for it. I despise anything with unnecessary gore. I understand that it comes with the territory with zombies, werewolves, and vampires. But movies like Saw or Hostel or any of those other slasher/torture pics make me sick and I won't watch them.

[iHaunt]

I like gore the best!

[Nick Nefarious]

At the risk of sounding too diplomatic, I like a balanced marriage between gore and suspense. A suspenseful build up makes a gory payoff even better.

[Li H'Sen Chang]

I do prefer gore but like you say both is good.

[Rising Dead Man]

I like gore when it comes to movie like Evil Dead and Dead-Alive. But I prefer suspense and creepiness.

[Grinchfanatic]

Definitely suspense. Gore is overused.

[witchy]

I like both, but without suspence, you got nothing!!

[Tee]

Creepiness and suspense, with lots of jumpy-outties and scary sound effects ala the 1963 version of "The Haunting". Although I like the really weird or archaic stuff too, like the 1922 "Haxan" or the 1920 "The Golem". The imagery in "Haxan" is so bizarre.

[scareviewzombies.com]

Suspense and an eerie atmosphere for me.

This mixed with some gore

[VanHelsingStandIn]

Suspense. It was one of the reasons Kolchak was such a neat show back in 1974-75. Kolchak was as clumsy as a two year old and all those monsters were just waiting to get him, but they never did!