How to Twist a Story Into a Dramatic Moment

A few weeks ago I suggested that you watch that movie dead calm. The beginning hook of that movie and how it climaxes into the middle build is very simple. It's a series of scenes at the very beginning of the movie. what you've done before so you have to think that logically like How can I keep Twisting this and making it more difficult and painful and how can I build it up to this climactic moment?