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Suspense The Key Factor In Horror Movies
Did you know that suspense is the key factor in horror movies or stories? Suspense is the thing that makes reading or watching those types of movies or book exciting. The writers work hard creating the suspense for that effect. The words the author uses or the way he/she writes the story causes suspense the outcome is the reader dying to know what happens next or is frightened. The Author creates suspense when the 3rd wish is made, because you are waiting to see if it worked in time this makes you frightened or nervous.A family in England came crossed a monkey's paw when their friend gave it to them ,with it you have 3 wishes. The family wished for money, which resulted in their son's death the mother wished him alive again, but he was not well, so as he is knocking the father wishes him dead.The suspense is waiting to see if the 3rd wish is made in time.As you see in the quote ”But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If only he could find it before the thing got …show more content…
One night he hid in his room to kill the man for his eye ,but the old man knows someones in his room so the narrator waits all night and then kills him and gets caught by police.The narrator hiding in the old man's room trying not to get caught by him creates the suspense.As you can tell from the quote it creates the suspense “I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out “Who's there?” ” page 91.The quote shows how it creates suspense the effect of this is you wondering if he will catch him. If there was no suspense the man would of just killed him right way.Suspense in this story makes you wonder about what's going to happen Suspense is important in a horror movie or

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