It is a film that is suspenseful without depending too much action(Action movie) or violence (Horror movie) to perpetrate its suspense. thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's mood, giving them a high level of anticipation, uncertainty,surprise and anxiety. It keeps the audience 'on edge of their seats'as the plot builds towards a climax. Literary devices such as red herring, plot twists and cliffhangers are used extensively.
Common sub genres are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, erotic thrillers and mystery thrillers. successful genres of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. One of the films which were popular of his was psycho filmed in 1960.
Thrillers are often hybrids- there a lot of varieties of suspense-thrillers:
- Action or Adventure- thrilers
- sci-fi thrillers (such as Alien (1979)
- crime-caper thrillers (such as The french connection (1971)
- Western- thrillers (such as High Noon (1952)
- film noir thrillers (such as Double indemnity (1944)
- Romantic comedy-thrillers (such as Safety Last (1923)
Characters in thrillers include convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitious individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.
Alfred Hitchcock is considered the acknowledged mater of the thrillers or suspense genre, manipulating his audience's fears and desires, and taking viewers into a state of association with the representation of reality facing the character. Films he has mastered:
- Marnie (1964)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Psycho (1960)
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