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 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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