2. HISTORY
One of the very first thriller films was a comic made in 1923 by Harold Lloyd
called Safety Last, however, the breakthrough of thriller genres didn't come
about until Alfred Hitchcock made films that set the standard of the modern
thriller genre.
In the 1970s and 1980s thrillers became very popular, and suddenly the
industry had many new directors, for example, Steven Spielberg's Jaws and
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. It was in the 1990s when crime and mystery
thrillers became more popular with serial killers and investigations.
Thriller films have always had a recurring change in camera angles, they use
scores and soundtracks to raise the tension and suspense within a scene.
3. ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Hitchcock developed the genre and was England’s
best director and producer who pioneered many
different techniques in the suspense and psychological
thriller genres.
He had a distinctive and recognisable directional style. He was very clever in the
way he pioneered use of camera movements and framed shots to maximise:
fear, anxiety and empathy, he also often used: twist endings, murder and
crime.
His film Psycho is one of his best known films. The
violence of the shower scene, the early death of the
heroine, the innocent lives extinguished by a disturbed
murderer became the defining hallmarks of Hitchcock's
new horror movie genre and has been copied by many
authors of subsequent horror thriller films.
4. DAVID FINCHER
Brought more money to it.
He is often known for dark thrillers and stylish thrillers, he includes: violent
content, resolutions or ‘happy endings’, dark colours/tones and low angles in
his thrillers.
He achieved huge success with se7en and panic room.
5. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
He redefined thrillers.
He is well known for unconventional and often
highly conceptual narratives.
His most well known thrillers include: Batman, Inception, Memento
