What are thrillers?

Thrillers are movies that often excite and shock the audience. They make the person watching want to get them selves protected by blocking their ears, closing their eyes, hugging a friend and etc. Thrillers mostly relys on the use of emotions to make them have suspense or excitement and have a lot of tension within them. Their main idea is to create tension, excitement and fear and to keep the audience on the edge of there seats as the plot builds up to the climax. Thrillers can be made into a lots of diffent types of sub genres for example crime, horrow, spy, psychological or conspiracy.

For example the supernatural thriller which has an fantacy element (from another world) mixed with suspense or plot twists. Often a main character has some kind of ability or superpower. There is not always much action in thrillers, instead they focus on the building up of tension through twists. Often the ability to see dead people or goshts is a main feature in a supernatural thriller, a good example of this is The Sixth Sense or the TV drama Heroes.

Psychological thrillers on the other hand focuses mainly on the unstable emotional states of characters. It typically incorporates mystery and drama elements, often overlaping with the horror genre. Unlike in action-thrillers characters are reliant on their mental resources to overcome their enemies and not their physical stregnth, their battles may be with a formidable opponent who is trying to either demolish their mental state or two or more opponents preying apon one anothers minds by playing deceptive games, or the battles is with the characters own mind. A typical psychological thriller would be Inception, it plays with your mind.

Again in contrast to both of these we have the spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, dealing with fictional espioange, either realistically or or as a basis for fantasy. Usually spy films show the espionage activities of government agents at the risk of being discovered by their enemies. Spy films have always been popular with aduiences worldwide, offering a combination of exciting escapism, technological thrills and exotic locales, the spy film combines the action and sci-fi genres, presenting clearly-delineateed heroes for audiences to root for. A good example of a spy film would be James Bond and Hannah which we have studied in media studies.