Thrillers

What are thrillers?

Thrillers are a genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. Thrillers effect the viewer's moods, giving them  anxiety for the charatcers safety, suspense, excitement, tension, and terror. Cliffhangers are used extensively in thrillers to keep you on edge till the end of the film. Cover-ups of important information from the viewer is used, or information being given to the viewer is unclear untill the end is also common. Fight and chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods.

Psychological thriller

Psychological thriller is a broad ranged thriller with heavy focus on characters. It often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, along with the typical traits of the thriller genre. In addition to drama and mystery, many psychological thrillers contain elements of, and often overlap with, the horror genre, particularly psychological horror.

Conspiracy thriller

Conspiracy thrillers contain some sort of hero or heroine who are usually journalists or armature investigators who find themselves trapped in a powerfull organisation. This type of genre plays with the identification of good to overrule the evil in the world. This genre also often play with the secrecy of governments and major organisations in history. The story as it goes on, unravels powerful evidence in addition to many enimies who try to keep the secret organisations alive through lies and propoganda. These companies are then brought down by the hero or heroine.

Crime thriller

Crime thrillers often focus more on the crinimals and their activities in leading up to to the crime or in retrospect the ending of the film leading back to how it all started. Crime thrillers usually emphasise action over psychological aspects although there is also a psychological part to the genre as well. Topics of this genre include serial killers and murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, heists and double-crosses.

Disaster thrillers

Disaster thrillers follwers a person or a group of people's survival when in danger through natural or artifical disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes. Many disaster films have have also had causes of human activity that has brough mankind to the brink of extinction through nuclear disasters which are artificial disasters. This type of genre plays with what the future is going to bring for mankind if such disasters were to happen.

Mystery thrillers

Mysterl thrillers relate a lot to crime thrillers. It focuses mostly on the efforts of the detective or private investigator in order to solve the mystery before them. Mystery thrillers looks at the circumstances of the mystery or crime itself in order to try to figure out what the clues are. This sub-genre brings more of a dramatic effect to the films during the investigation in order to know what the crime is.

Political thriller

Political thrillers looks into the stability of a government and the the reliance on a hero or heroine who must ensure the stability of the government that employs him in order to to prevent bad things happening. Commonly used senarios are the US presidential elections and the preventions of world wars occuring.

Religious thriller

Religious thrillers connects to the plots closely religious objects, institutions and questions. Many religion related films usually unravel the good and bad points about religon. This connoting the good  and how it overcomes the bad in films though a quest of finding out the truth.

Supernatural thriller

Supernatural thrillers often brings an otherworldly element that shows something out of the ordinary happening to a leading charatcer that they have to overcome. This sub-genre also mixed in with tension and suspence in addition to also having unexpected twist during the film. The leading charatcer or villians usually have a supernatural gift that help them to get to the source of the problem. This sub-genre is closely linked to religous thrillers as usually daemons entering the human body, alien life form, apparitions or the possession of a pivotal character is an element of a supernatural thriller.