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Set up a cast of characters an audience can identify with and kill off the one everyoen thinks will outlive the rest first and you can keep people guessing for 45 minutes or so
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Yes,
Psycho and
Night of the Living Dead made the audience shift in their seats by killing off the presumed hero/heroines early in the film.
Once everything isn't so predictable, we have the viewers' full attention.