2. • Thriller is a genre of film that uses suspense, tension and
excitement as its main elements
• Films of this genre tend to be gritty, fast paced and intense.
They also tend to be based around a crime being committed
or other illegal activity
• The aim of a thriller is to keep the viewer on the edge of
their seat up until the dramatic ending. To do this devices
such as plot twists and cliff-hangers are used.
3. SUB GENRES
• The horror and action genres often overlap with the
thriller genre in movies.
• Thrillers can have sub genres as well. They tend to
be one of the following:
4. PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS
• Vertigo
• Released 1958
• Based the 1954 novel D'entre les
morts by Boileau-Narcejac
• Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock
5. CRIME THRILLER
• Sin City
• Released 2005
• Written, produced, and directed by Frank
Miller and Robert Rodriguez
• Based on Miller’s Graphic Novel of the same
name
6. MYSTERY THRILLER
• Se7en
• Released 1995
• Directed by David Fincher
• Stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman
