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Originally Posted by tsugomaru
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Well, in defense of rzr, Richard Matheson pretty much pioneered the concept in SF/Horror of a formerly supernatural enemy actually being explained by legitimate science. In the original, they were vampires, but he actually made the attempt to explain all of the usual things about vampires (repelled by holy objects, harmed by sunlight, drinking blood etc etc) using reasonable scientific justification.
It made things more frightening when readers considered that it was possible such a thing could actually happen, rather than some mystical "oooh it's vampires" concept.
This is also why in my opinion, Cujo is one of Stephen King's most suspenseful pieces of writing. The fear and suspense are heightened by the knowledge that it could totally happen to you next.
PS: If you want to see the most classically suspenseful movie in the history of the world, take a look at 'Duel'
It's a 1971 Spielberg movie back when it was like "And introducing Steven Spielberg" (It was his first director credit ever) starring Dennis Weaver and actually, based on a short story by Richard Matheson (Which I didn't know until just this minute, cool)
It's like 90 minutes long, has maybe 20 lines of dialogue, and is the most ridiculously suspenseful thing I've ever seen.