Zombies and Vampires and Slashers,oh my!

Rose McGowan in scene from "Grindhouse:Planet Terror"

Halloween is almost upon us and I don't know about the rest of you,but as an adult one of my favorite things about October is all the horror movies on television!Just about every cable channel is airing all sorts of horror flicks and there are just not enough hours in a day to watch them all,but I sure try!
Last night IFC (Independent Film Channel) showed the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"(1974) and I was amused while watching because whenever you mention that movie,people are adamant about how "gruesome" it was and it really wasn't.It's the things you DON'T see that in that and other older horror movies that scared the hell out of audiences.The remake of it that was released a few years ago relied heavily on showing every nasty little act of torture and dismemberment and left nothing open for the viewer to wonder about.I won't go on and on about how the classics were better but the more current movies in the genre leave nothing to the imagination."Hostel",for example,while a great movie,was just balls-out gross and explicit.Not to say I do not like gore,but sometimes the stuff you never see is what gives you the willies.
I personally prefer "zombie" flicks,from Romero right up to "Grindhouse:Planet Terror"(which I watched for the gazillionth time last night also!).Theres just something about the monster being one of us,a human or subhuman,that scares me to no end!
And that brings me to my question:Are you a horror movie fan?Which sub-genre do you prefer in horror films?Do you lean more towards bloodsuckers or flesh-eaters or do you enjoy the good old Universal Monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula?And lastly,do you think todays horror movies go too far ?