Let 'Em Play God

Let ‘Em play god
• Every maker of mystery movies aims at getting the audience on the edge of their seats, keeping them there is called suspense.
• You have suspense when you let the audience play god. For instant, if the audience have been told all the secrets the characters don’t know they’ll work like the devil for you because they know what fate is facing the poor characters.
• It is important in a story with sinister implications to use counterpoint, great contrast between situation and background.
• To make the audience at such a pitch that they want to shout every time something they know is about to happen, one of the necessary ingredients of the formula is a series of plausible situation with people that are real. When characters unbelievable you never get real suspense, only surprise.