So is it just me or are the Night Lords not scary at all?

So is it just me or are the Night Lords not scary at all?

I mean aesthetically. They're blue (peaceful color) with cartoonish spooky imagery (bright red bat wings and lightning bolts) and their displays of atrocity boil down to wearing flayed skins and the usual skull trophies.

I mean fuck, the average imperial servitor looks ten times more gruesome and threatening than a Night Lord. The entirety of the Death Guard are gorier and more disgusting, most Emperor's Children are so fucked up with surgery that they make Night Lords look like average joes, and let's not even mention what some xenos races look like.

They pride themselves with being the cruelest and the scariest, and all they have to show for it is a few flayed skins.
Is that seriously the best they can do? Is that ALL they can do? Cause I don't really remember them doing anything else. It's always "muh flayed skins" and it's not even that special by 40k standards.
Can't they at least impale a few babies on their trophy racks? Or do something more creative with corpses than just flaying them?
I know they're not big on the whole warp powers thing but if they really gave a shit they could do some really cool shit with that. They don't even have to limit themselves to what is physically possible. And yet they haven't evolved since the Great Crusade in terms of gruesomeness. They have the opportunity to go full Hellraiser (minus the medical theme cause that's the Haemonculi's gimmick) and yet they stick to the same old shit as when they were loyal.

tl;dr
why are NLs such huge unimaginative pussies?

They're the least Chaos worshipping of the traitor legions and are really more just renegades.

They are all literal violent sociopaths, and are basically a legion of super powered serial killers.

It's the fact that you DON'T see them until it's too late that makes them scary.

serial killers who all seem to think that the only valid way to express your psychopathic urges and to scare people is to wear flayed skins

the lamest, most unimaginative pussy-ass psychos of all time

yeah no, bullshit

perhaps in context they're meant to scare peasants and other folk who haven't been desensitized to cartoon drawings of skulls and batwings

those people don't exist in the Imperium.

i forget the book, im pretty sure its horus heresy, but there is a horrifying torture scene wh

They are not scary, but they are good at jumpscares

>but there is a horrifying torture scene wh
user? what happened? user?!