Dread and Tension

Dread

Dread noun - Suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune.

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Tension and dread are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tension" instead a noun "Dread".

Nearby Words: dreadful, dreadfully, dreaded, dreading, dreader

Tension noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.

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Dread and tension are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dread" instead a noun "Tension".

Nearby Words: tense, tensing, tensed, tenseness, tensely

old	old dread	old tension
high	high dread	high tension
initial	initial dread	initial tension
genuine	genuine dread	genuine tension
Other adjectives: sheer, deep, obvious, visible, real, constant, great, social, general, repressed.

Psychological Horror: There are only one or two "scare moments" throughout the film and instead the film relies on a lingering sense of tension and dread.

Source: Film / Session 9
Nothing Is Scarier: The film slowly ratchets up its tension levels via carefully-timed scene placement, so that by the midway point a genuine uncertainty and dread has latched onto all the participating characters.

Source: Film / It Follows
Took a Level in Badass: Wil is winning a lot more in the succeeding seasons than he did in Season 1 Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer for Dread, Part 2 managed to spoil most of the plot developments in that episode, ruining the tension that had developed in Part 1.

Source: Web Video / Tabletop