definition and examples of suspense

Suspense-a state of feeling excited or anxious about what is gonna happen next in a film or scene, for example in sabotage when the fire breaks out and Ken is given the fire extinguisher we are on edge as to weather it will work or not. In children of men a suspense building scen is the car scene, and Jullian is shot and we are unaware of weather she is gonna make it alive after the shot. Finally in rope, suspension is in the opening scene, as we hear the scream we wonder what it is that behjind the curtain.