I have mainly been on the side of less gore is better, but until I made the Impaled prop this year, I'm starting to think that maybe gore isn't so bad. I probably wouldn't go overboard with gore, but gore seems to attract attention (lol) and today I had someone walking by who stopped and looked real closely at it. He was very impressed and said he would definately bring his nephew to my house for trick-or-treating. Never before have I had people walk over and take pics of my props and although I have had a few people stop or slow down the past years, this year there have been a lot more! I am in the process of building a prop I call Spiked (which was inspired by a static prop I saw online by the same name) and when it is done, it will sit next to Impaled. I will judge by the reactions my display gets when both props are out there, but so far the gorey prop has gotten the most favorable reactions...and one not-so-favorable one too 
