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That's quite a valid point you make there. A friend of mine said once, and I thought it summed it up in a similar way, "One of the things low budget horror films can take advantage of is atmosphere."
I think we were watching and discussing "Phantasm" at the time. And it seems to be true: As much as it might be nice to have budgets out to here and so forth, a skimpy budget not only encourages creativity but forces you to use suggestion to convey, rather than graphicness.
The saying that "What you don't show is always much worse than what you do show" has been dragged out ad infinitum and is certainly a tired old expression, but there's nonetheless a lot of wisdom in it.
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