A Red Herring is the name given to a device which intends to divert the audience from the truth or an item of significance. Red Herrings can work with other device like enigmas to create suspense.
An example of a Red Herring is in Saw, two characters spend time imprisoned in a room in which a third character lies dead. Throughout the film, both characters appear to be guilty of murders, until it is discovered at the end that the third preson in the room is not actually dead but is, in fact, the killer.
Another example is in Source Code where people who we expect are the terrorists are not.
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