Suspense is a term most often used in dramatic work. The technique is specifically used in order to give an audience a feeling of anxiety towards the outcome of certain events. It usually occurs in situations leading up to a big event or moment. Tension is often associated with suspense as one of the primary emotions felt by the audience. Suspense can also be described as a combination of anticipation and uncertainty, often used when referring to future events.
Suspense makes you feel slightly edgy, as you wonder what will happen in the next scene and/or episode.
Audiences find suspense attractive as it leaves them something to think about as they look forward to watching the rest of the story as it progresses. I would go to see a film with suspense in it as it adds depth to the film because the story is not obvious and requires you to think.
Suspense is created when the audience expect a bad even to happen within a film, and although they believe to have a superior knowledge of it, they are powerless to prevent it.
Glenn.