Sentence examples for uncanny suspense from inspiring English sources

An uncanny suspense ripples through the movie.

Not all filmmakers create complete and resonant fantasy worlds, rife with strange, sometimes frightening beings as well as mysterious movement, emotional suspense and uncanny detail.

Dr. Robin W. Winks, a Yale historian and expert on detective fiction, wrote in 1992, "Garve's sense of place is uncanny," notably in the cloak-and-dagger suspense novel "Murder in Moscow" (1951, Ulverscroft).

The spookiness of Hoffmann's original short story is infused with Freud's theories on the uncanny, as Douglas mixes mundane scenes with the atmospheric suspense of film-noir thrillers.

A few of the Freudian flights feel overworked, but Rudkin is very good at imagining the process of Hitchcock's thinking, revealing the filmmaker's uncanny understanding of human nature and laying out the nuts and bolts of cinematic technique that make suspense and terror palpable to an audience in a comfy movie house.

Suspense, remember?

"Oh, suspense!

Completely uncanny.

An uncanny ambiguity".

Still, uncanny.

The likenesses were uncanny.