Thrillers and horrors often depict society in a dark way through violence, crime, and murder, with justice typically served in the end as antagonists are killed or arrested. These genres aim to keep audiences on the edge of their seats through suspense and anticipation created by plot twists, cliffhangers, and situations where liked characters have no escape. Common characters include criminals, murderers, psychopaths, and terrorists, while plots frequently involve terrorism, revenge, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Heroes are usually ordinary citizens fighting crime outside their experience in the location where the film is set.

1. Genre Research
Thriller/Horror

2. Thrillers and horrors are mostly characterised by violence, crime and murder by showing
society in a dark way. The majority of the time they often feature a happy ending in which
the antagonists are killed or arrested; justice is usually served in the end. Thrillers feature
devices such as plot twists and cliff hangers. Anticipation is often used to create a
cliffhanger like situation for the viewer.
The Purge
The Call

3. A successful thriller or horror can manage to keep the audience in suspense and ‘on the
edge of their seats’ as the plot builds towards the climax. When a character who the
director makes the audience fond of get into a threatening situation the tension rises.
Likewise if a character gets into a situation there is no escape from the tension rises. Lives
are often at threat because of the main characters involvement.

4. The characters that you would often come across in thrillers and horrors are
criminals, murderers, psychopaths, terrorists and civil services. The reason behind the plot
of thrillers and horrors are often terrorism, revenge, political debate or romantic triangles
that lead to murder. The heroes in the plot is more than likely to be a citizen of the location
the film is set in who is not used to crime on the scale that they fight against.