Thrillers are a broad genre that overlap with other genres, featuring fast pacing, action, and a hero and villain storyline. They aim to keep audiences interested through surprises and red herrings. Thrillers come in many types including spy, political, military, conspiracy, medical, religious, forensic, psychological, disaster, and legal thrillers. Characteristics include overlapping with mysteries, featuring mass murders to drive the plot, using confrontation, including cliffhangers or the villain's death, varying budgets between American and British films, and exotic settings.

1. THRILLER RESEARCH
Kerry Findey

2. INTRODUCTION
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The thriller genre is a broad genre what tends to overlap into many different
other types of genres
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They are usually fast paced and have frequent action
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Thrillers also usually have a villain and hero in the storyline
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To keep the audience interested in thriller films, there tend to be surprises and
red herrings which misled the audience into thinking something what is later
revealed in the film to be incorrect

3. DIFFERENT TYPES OF THRILLERS
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Spy thrillers (generally government involved)
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Political thrillers
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Military thrillers
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Conspiracy thrillers
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Medical thrillers
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Religious thrillers
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Forensic thrillers
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Psychological thrillers
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Disaster thrillers
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Legal thrillers
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Supernatural thrillers

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF THRILLERS
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Thrillers usually overlap with mystery genre (this tends to be criminal mystery
e.g. a murder)
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They normally have a mass murder which creates a big story
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There is confrontation used in thrillers
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All thrillers have a similar storyline which is that they all have cliff-hangers or
that the villain dies
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American thrillers have a bigger budget, therefore are less realistic and cost
more
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British thrillers tend to be more realist
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Thrillers are usually set and take place in exotic areas