Why's the Bible so gory? To please the kids?

Why do kids, especially boys, like gross and disgusting things? As kids get into their teen years, they develop a fascination with gross and gory things. In my case, it was the gory images from "Tales from the Crypt".

Movie makers out of Hollywood long ago discovered box office gold in splatter flicks, such as "Scanners" or "Aliens", or even "Jaws", just to name a few. The Bible is filled with splattering, flaming, and exploding imagery. How interesting that right when kids develop their fascination with gore, it's time to get a bar mitzvah!

Perhaps the redactors to the Bible wanted to make sure that the gore was firmly rooted in a moral context (that is, part of God's plan, or a result of the Wrath of God), rather then being gratuitous and gross, and with the intention of scaring kids. Maybe the Biblical scribes of olde felt that it was important to scare kids with stories of God's wrath, all in the name of making sure that they lived a life that adhered to the commandments recorded by Moses. Because gore without God is a world that is lost. Even even gore WITH God is hard to stomach.

As I said earlier, perhaps our sages of yesteryear recognized that right as kids start getting interested in gory things, perhaps that's the best time for a child to assume the moral principles of adult. I wonder if that's a hidden reason why Jewish kids get their bar mitzvahs at thirteen years old!