Quotes About Suspense

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

The van. The man. He was driving her somewhere. But where? To her death? To an unspeakable horror that was too painful even to think about?

But I have a feeling Regina Morrow may be in for big trouble!

Franklin W. Dixon

The three boys passed the big house, now dark and silent once more, and walked down the driveway. "That place gives me the willies," muttered Chet, as Frank closed the gate. "I still have the creepy feeling that somebody's in there, watching everything that goes on.

Franklin W. Dixon

dark eyes. His brow was furrowed in a deep scowl, but in a flash he assumed

Just then a car pulled up in front of the house with a squeal of tires and a series of loud backfires. "Don't tell me—let me guess. It's Chet Morton," said Frank.

FRANK and Joe Hardy clutched the grips of their motorcycles and stared in horror at the oncoming car.

Something down there move!

balls. Those, and the stacked rifles, may have referred to the

Joe had vanished!

Frank and Joe sprinted toward a crowd of people milling in the town square. They were gathered around an old Civil War mortar that stood on a pedestal. White smoke drifted from the muzzle. "Somebody fired the gun!" Joe cried out. "It must have been an accident," Frank said.

Please — consider me a dream.

Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

'Rear Window' isn't really a horror film, but it is a psychological drama, which I love. It is very tense.

I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

The Windsor monarchy is held in just awe. The whole process of criticism of the personal behaviour of the monarch is put in absolute suspense until about 1977, when it begins again.

The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.