The mester of suspense is Alfred Hitchcock, and his most famous horror film is Psycho, in 1998. He made his characters were seral killers. And, to create more suspense, used the subjective camara, the camara seemed to be the character.
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The story tolk about a butler that the nervous the eye white of his master. And slowly he goes crazy, he see the eye of his master everywhere. Until that one day the butler not anymore and he killed his master. Was covered with a blanket from the bed and left it there on the floor of his room. After a few days the police went her house, that the master since was living in the house of the master. The police had gone to the master because the master of the house had disappeared. But the buter increasingly crazy, and he confessed that he had killed. The police was in prison and he called, he confessed that he has killed.
Edgar Allan Poe invented the first macabre stories, and the first PHS was the Black Cat in 1843. Also he invented the detective and science fiction.
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The Gotic Novel was invated by Horace Walpole. Her first G.N whose The Castle of Otranto in 1764.
The basic elements that I dion't inclued in my list are setting in a castle; an atmosphere of mystery and suspense; omens ( auguri ), portents ( presagis ), visions; high, even overwrought emotion; women in distress, women threatened by a powerful, impulstive, tyranical male.
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