The audience may put together what is going on in advance of the characters in the story; the identification of the monsters (kuntilanak) by the characters (Sam, Agung, etc) is phased in after the prior realizations of the audience. That the audience possesses this knowledge, of course, quickens its anticipation. Moreover, the audience often is placed in this position because it, like the narrator, frequently has access to many more scenes and accident, as well as their implications, than are available to individual characters. This type of structure is quite common. The audience, then, often has a fuller picture of what is going down, or, to shift metaphors, the audience has more pieces of the puzzle than do the characters, which perspective results in the audience coming to its discovery in advance of the characters, and, thereby, elicits a keen sense of expectation from the reader or the viewer. ~ REF: The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll [ms.100] Salaam.. Kuntil