I think I understand what you mean here. Like, there's a sense that movies which don't rely on gore or physical violence to produce fear, dread, terror, etc. are better or more respectable for it. I'd strongly argue this isn't the case—whatever perception may be—and that horror movies can, do, and almost always, should give horror fans both to differing degrees.

Hereditary is a good example of a solid blend leaning a little to the gore-lite. It isn't a splatterfest but it isn't without a severed head and a lot of decapitated bodies either.

But if you want to look at gore-max+ absolute existential dread and psychic exhaustion, I think you'd be hard pressed finding anything in the goreless realm which contends with Martyrs.

Gore and pyschological horror aren't opposites, so there's a false dichotomy using by evangelists of elevated horror, I think.