This document outlines several sub-genres of the thriller genre and provides examples of films that fall into each category. It discusses conspiracy thrillers, which involve a protagonist exposing secret organizations; crime thrillers, which focus on criminals and their activities leading up to and during crimes; disaster thrillers, which follow characters surviving natural or man-made disasters; mystery thrillers, which center around solving a crime or mystery; and political thrillers, which examine threats to government stability. It also mentions psychological, supernatural, religious, and techno thrillers.

1. These are the sub-genres of
the thriller genre which gives
more detail to how a thriller
should be laid out, in
addition to giving specific
examples of specific films for
each sub-genre category
Thriller sub-genres

2. This type of genre consists of some sort of hero or
heroine who are stereotypically journalists or
armature investigators who find themselves
trapped in a very powerful organisation. The story
later on unravelling powerful evidence in addition
to many enemies who try to keep the secret
organisations alive through lies and propaganda.
These companies are then brought down by the
protagonist character. This type of genre plays with
the identification of good to overrule the evil in the
world. Conspiracy thrillers often play with the
secrecy of governments and major organisations in
history.
Conspiracy Thrillers

3. This subgenre connects the plots closely
religious objects, institutions and
questions. Many religious related films
usually unravel the good and bad points
about religion in particular the catholic
belief. This connoting the good and how
it overcomes the bad in films, through a
quest to finding out the truth.

4. The hybrid between crime and thriller has
created a more suspenseful account to
showing successful and failed crime acts on
film. Crime thriller's often focus more on
the criminals and their activities in leading
up 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 this
genre as-well. Central topics of the films
include serial killers & murders, robberies,
chases, shootouts, heists and double-
crosses.
Crime thrillers!

5. This particular genre follows a certain
groups or persons survival in conflict with
natural or artificial disaster like floods,
earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes. Many
disaster film have also had causes of
human activity that has brought mankind
to the brink of extinction through nuclear
disasters which are artificial disaster. This
type of genre plays with what the future is
going to bring for mankind if such
disasters were to happen.
Disaster thrillers!

6. This particular sub-genre relates a lot to
crime thrillers. It focuses mostly on the
efforts of the detective or private
investigator in order to solve the mystery .
This sub-genre looks at the circumstances
of the mystery or crime itself in order to try
figure out what the clues are, audiences
usually take part in trying to uncover the
crime. This genre gets into the psyche of
the audiences as audiences are have a prime
offence that they also follow as the
protagonist is finding out information as
well. This brings more dramatic effect to the
films during the investigation in order to
know what the crime is.
Mystery thrillers!

7. This sub-genre looks into the
stability of a government and the
reliance on a hero or heroine who
must ensure the stability of the
government that employs him in
order to prevent a bad things
happening. Commonly used
scenarios are the US presidential
elections and the preventions of
world wars occurring.
Political thrillers!

8. Physiological thrillers!
This is the quintessential sub-
genre of thriller that is
implemented into all the sub-
thriller genres. It plays with the
audiences minds and produces
suspense in film because it
reflects the main characters
conflict being mental and
emotional hindered. It shows the
mentality of a character and the
thought processes that they go
through which makes this sub-
genre so suspenseful.

9. Supernatural thrillers
Supernatural thriller often bring an
otherworldly element that shows
something out of the ordinary happening
to a protagonist that has to overcome this
powerful factor. This genre is also mixed
in with tension and suspense in addition to
also having unsuspected twist during the
film. The protagonist or villains usually
have a supernatural gift that help them get
to the source of the problem. This
subgenre is very closely linked in with
religious thrillers as usually daemons
entering the human body, alien life form,
apparitions or the possession of a pivotal
character is a element of a supernatural
thriller film.

10. Techno thriller look into the manipulation of
sophisticated technology playing a prominent
part in taking over the world giving the new
world order where mankind is over run by
robots. This particular subgenre is mainly based
on fictional speculations on life that tend to
follow a science fiction trend. Common themes
linked in with this sub-genre is world wars,
action and science fictional occurrences like
aliens taking over with new technologies.
Techno thrillers