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Bloody horror or subtle horror? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If you like horror, whether in literature, movies, video games, etc., what do you prefer? Bloodbaths and gore, or subtlety and nothing explicit?

My Take

I like subtle horror the most, but I can appreciate a good bloodbath if it's well used.

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago

Subtle cosmic horror. The implications.

For example, image diving into a deep ocean, and it gets darker, until there is no light left - and a few lights dint somewhere, and you dive on.

It could be that the story mentions the lights very casually, as nothing relevant, merely for detail; but that you sense hints of the water vibrating, knowing not whence it comes.

What is it? The reader is left to interpret. Is it a large sea monster? Merely a few bioluminescent worms swimming by? Are you making up things?

Nobody knows; and that fear is the unknown.