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unusual facts about suspense



Angus MacPhail

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the 'MacGuffin'.

Arakshaka

Arakshaka contains Vasu's trademark elements like psychological storyline, mysterious screenplay, suspense and the dark tone similar to his previous psychological thriller films like Apthamitra and Aptharakshaka.

Babang Luksa

Babang Luksa is a 2011 Filipino independent suspense-thriller film produced by Creative Minds Productions starring Precious Lara Quigaman, Luis Alandy and Angelika dela Cruz written and directed by Yuan Santiago.

Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein

Bambai Raat Ki Bahon Mein (English title: In the Arms of the Bombay Night) was a 1967 suspense crime-triller Hindi film written, produced and directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.

Blind Terror

Blind Terror is a 2001 suspense thriller starring Nastassja Kinski, Stewart Bick and Gordon Pinsent.

Blow the Man Down

The song is sung ominously by a zither-playing blind street singer in the opening scene of Val Lewton's 1943 suspense film, "The Ghost Ship."

Breathing Room

Kathy Justice of Indy Week called it "low on camp and high on suspense", with a plot that resembles the 2006 French cult film 13 Tzameti.

Brome Lake, Quebec

In 1975, Knowlton was also used as one of the sites for filming the Jodie Foster suspense film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.

Cabir Maira

Cabir Maira is an Indian Television actor, currently playing the role of Anand Swami, the Head of SIU (RAW) in Life OK and Sphere Origins' Fiction, Suspense Thriller television series 2613.

Cemetery Dance

Cemetery Dance Publications, a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense

Crazy as Hell

Crazy as Hell, released in 2002 (New York and L.A. only), is a horror suspense film that is based on the 1982 novel by Jeremy Leven and follows Dr. Ty Adams (played by Michael Beach), an aggressive and overconfident psychiatrist who is producing a documentary film about a nearby state-run mental hospital.

Erika Anderson

She also starred in the 1991 erotic suspense thriller Zandalee with Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, and Joe Pantoliano.

Face Blind

Face Blind is a suspense novel penned by author Raymond Benson, published by Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd. in 2003.

Final Descent

The 1990 CD came with a large sticker on its cellophane wrapping, which read, "Samhain: Final Descent" (in the same font used for the original 1976 horror/suspense motion picture The Omen and its three sequels).

George Baxt

His most notable screenplays include three collaborations with director Sidney Hayers noted for their taut suspense and black humour: Circus of Horrors (1960), the thriller Payroll (1961) from the novel by Derek Bickerton and Night of the Eagle (1962) which he re-wrote following a draft by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, though his credit was omitted from the US version which was released as Burn, Witch, Burn.

Give Me a Sign

While singer Ben Burnley said he had not completely divulged the concept, he added an element of suspense by stating that he hoped fans of the band would “recognize and be excited by the inclusion of certain key characters from the band’s past”.

Jerry Farber

Among the other radio shows on which he appeared were The Great Gildersleeve, Lux Radio Theatre, The Screen Guild Theatre, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Suspense.

John Sturges

He made imaginative use of the widescreen CinemaScope format by placing Spencer Tracy alone against a vast desert panorama in the suspense film Bad Day at Black Rock for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination in 1955.

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman (born August 9, 1949) is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels.

Kathleen Quinlan

Quinlan also made a mark as Jim Morrison's Celtic Pagan lover Patricia Kennealy in Oliver Stone's The Doors, and won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Favorite Supporting Actress-Suspense, for Breakdown (1997) with Kurt Russell.

King Brothers Productions

Some of their films include Dillinger (1945), Suspense (1946), Gun Crazy (1949), Carnival Story (1954), The Brave One (1954, which earned writer Dalton Trumbo (who also worked on Gun Crazy) a Best Screenplay Academy Award), Gorgo (1961), Captain Sindbad (1963), and Heaven With a Gun (1968).

Live from KCRW

In his review for Exclaim!, Vish Khanna said "here the band strip down to play mellower fare. That's not to say it's not intense or pensive in its own right; Cave is a master of phrasing and knows how to enhance the suspense and drama in his carefully written lyrics", rating Live from KCRW eight out of ten.

Lucille Fletcher

Lucille Fletcher also wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated suspense plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name.

Map of the Invisible World

The Daily Telegraph criticized the book, citing the suspense as "half-hearted" and the character of Adam as "so infuriatingly passive that he is neither credible nor particularly engaging".

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy

Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy is a coming of age film, complete with suspense, drama, comedic relief and Civil War references.

Mildred Davis

:For the suspense/mystery author see Mildred B. Davis

Mystery Scene

:Articles focus on writers (Stuart Neville, Edgar Allan Poe, Daphne du Maurier), characters (Trixie Belden, Jack Reacher), films and TV shows (“The Three Maltese Falcons”, Rockford Files, David Simon, humorous mystery movies), and subgenres (legal thrillers, romantic suspense, crime novels of the Civil Rights era), among other topics.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Frank Stilley, in a review for the Associated Press syndicated throughout the United States, said Gardner "lacks nothing" of Ian Fleming's gift for "conveying agaonizing suspense" and that "the yearn is a cinch" to please "James Bond's countless fans".

Open Grave

Open Grave is a horror suspense film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego.

Ron Clark Ball

A former Officer and Naval Aviator who flew the F-14 Tomcat and served in the United States Navy during Operation Desert Storm, his fictional novel Falcon on the Tower is a lauded debut suspense thriller that tackles issues of radical Islamic global terrorism in the 21st Century and its collision with capitalism.

Saturday Suspense

Some of the noted producers and directors that have produced/directed Saturday Suspense stories are Shyam Ramsay Homi Wadia, Anant Mahadevan, Vivek Agnihotri, Mahesh Aney, Anurag Basu, Deepak Tijori, Ashutosh Gowariker, Raj Tilak, and Vikram Bhatt.

Strange Suspense Stories

In a quirk common to the publisher, Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories started not with issue #6 (continuing the Fawcett numbering) nor with issue #1, but with issue #16, continuing the numbering of a cancelled crime/horror series, Lawbreakers Suspense Stories—which itself had continued the numbering of the crime comic Lawbreakers.

Starting out as a horror/suspense title, the first volume gradually moved toward eerie fantasy and weird science fiction, before ending as a vehicle for the superhero Captain Atom.

Tales of Suspense

Son of Origins of Marvel Comics includes Iron Man stories from Tales of Suspense #39 and 97, 249 pages, October 1975, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0671221669

The Bride Collector

The Bride Collector is a 2010, thriller, and suspense novel written by Ted Dekker.

The Last Albatross

Jackie Cassada said in her review for Library Journal that "the author of The View from the Mirror crafts a chilling sf suspense story set against a backdrop of 21st-century environmental depletion and cultural degeneration. First published in Australia, Irvine's latest novel, the first in a trilogy of eco-thrillers, portrays a frighteningly plausible near future".

The Matlock Paper

The Matlock Paper is the third suspense novel by Robert Ludlum, in which a solitary protagonist comes face to face with a massive criminal conspiracy.

The Return of the Sorcerer

It was also adapted for radio in an episode starring Tucker Smallwood and Ron Bottitta produced for the revival of the classic radio series Suspense, which premiered on Sirius XM Radio in November 2012.

The Vise

Produced in London and hosted by Australian actor Ron Randell, the suspense series depicted people unwittingly trapped in "the vise" of fate due to their own actions, usually of a criminal nature.

Theo Green

In 2012 he teamed up with Hush director Mark Tonderai a second time for the Jennifer Lawrence suspense thriller, House at the End of the Street.

Tim Green

He has written suspense novels and other books and has served as a commentator for the NFL on Fox.

Vince Alascia

Mostly, however, Alascia worked with Charlton Comics of Derby, Connecticut, where he was teamed with Charles Nicholas (the 1921-1985 comics artist of that name) on a full gamut of crime, suspense, mystery, science fiction, war, Western, romance, and hot-rod titles, beginning with Crime and Justice #16 (Jan. 1953).

Yakshiyum Njanum

Yakshiyum Njanum is a suspense horror thriller and is director Vinayan's third film of this genre after the super hits Aakasha Ganga and Vellinakshatram.


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