Read the extract “Let ‘Em Play God” and make notes on what you consider to be the most important points:

Getting the audience on the edge of their seats (MURDER)
Suspense
Puzzling the audience is not the essence of suspense
Create a whodunit
Atmosphere that is loaded with evil makes for real suspense
Plausible situations that are real, when characters are unbelievable you never get real suspense, only surprise
Not necessary to see transoms opening, clutching fingers, hooded creatures and asps on the Chinese rug.
Doesn’t always have to have shadows, the weather dull, and stormy throughout, the moor mind swept, and creaky doors.
Use sinister implications to use counterpoint, great contrast between situations and background.
Don’t change your style in order to develop new characters and a different story in each film.
Style in directing slowly and naturally as it does in everything else
It must be the result of growth and patient experimentation with materials of the trade, the style itself emerging eventually almost unconsciously

“What scares us” with regards to film based on your watching of
The Shining:

Loud music
Sense of sharpness
Quick fire shots
Flashy things
Old naked people
Blood
Demented people