The document discusses the genre of thriller movies. It defines what a thriller is and notes they can be divided into categories like psychological thrillers. It provides examples of subgenres and then summarizes several famous thriller movies from different decades, highlighting their directors and key plot elements. Famous directors of thrillers like Hitchcock and Terence Young are also discussed. Finally, it outlines some key elements that make a successful thriller film, like gripping storylines and techniques to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

1. Genre Research: Thriller
Movies

2. What is a thriller?
 A thriller gives the audience a sudden rush of
emotions, excitement, scene of suspension,
apprehension, and exhilaration that drive the
narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls,
sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace.]
 Thrillers can be divided into countless categories;
i.e., action thrillers, psychological thrillers, military
thrillers, spy thrillers, sci-fi thrillers, romantic
thrillers, etc.
 It "thrills" as one watches it.

3. Sub genres
There are many sub genres that are under thriller
movie including:
 Psychological thriller
 political thriller
 Action thriller
 Religious thriller
 Legal thriller
 Erotic thriller
 Disaster thriller

4.  Director was Tim Browning
1932  It‟s a drama thriller with strong
FREAKS elements of horror, because this is
something audiences will never have
seen before.
 The cast is mostly composed of actual
carnival (funfair) performers. Director
Browning took the exceptional step of
casting real people with deformities as
the eponymous sideshow "freaks,"
rather than using costumes and
makeup.
 Among the characters featured as
"freaks" were the human skeleton, "the
bearded lady, "armless wonders" and
the conjoined twins.

5. 1934  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who
THE MAN lead the way of action and suspense
WHO KNEW films at the time.
TOO MUCH
 It‟s a suspense thriller.
 It was one of his early films, and the
only one he ever remade
 The film is about foreign countries,
spies and association. The film ends
in kidnap and assigns leading them
with false information which ends
with a suicide.
 He builds the thrill with his exciting
storyline and unknown places.

6. 1940
STRANGER  It‟s a film noir thriller.
ON THE  by American director Boris
THIRD FLOOR
Ingster.
 The film builds the intensiveness
by an urban setting, heavy
shadows, diagonal lines, voice-
over narration, a dream sequence,
low camera angles shooting up
multi-storey staircases, and an
innocent protagonist falsely
accused of a crime and desperate
to clear himself.

7. 1946  It is a horror thriller, which plays
THE BRUTE with the minds of the audience.
MAN
 It contains murderers, disfigured
faces and life's of innocent,
ordinary citizens whose life are in
jeopardy.
 „The creeper‟ is who they all fear.
 The fact that it contains everyday
life and ordinary happenings
makes it more like reality to the
viewer strong.
 Director is Jean Yarborough

8. 1949  Directed by Otto Preminger.
WHIRLPOOL  Its a thriller film noir
 The heroine is controlled by a
murderous hypnotists who makes
her think she committed murder.
Otto combines this will melodrama
as the central characters distant
marriage is threaded.
 Film noir is a word used to describe
stylish Hollywood crime dramas.
 The film includes great thrill by the
hypnotist which to an ordinary
human is impossible but in the film
the impossible is made possible.
Something never done in English
thrillers.

9. 1953  Directed by Cy Endfield.
THE LIMPING  Frank hasn't seen his girlfriend
MAN
for 6 years, on his way home he
gets caught up with a suspected
murder. the mystery of the
„limping man‟ unfolds at his feet
and frank becomes in grave
danger.
 It‟s a crime thriller, an was called
an „outstanding success‟

10. 1955  Produced and directed by Robert
KISS ME Aldridge.
DEADLY
 The plot involves attractive
hitchhikers, who have escaped
from mental institutes. Who to
trust? a masterful hostage takes
place, which turns
disastrous...and a nuclear
explosion kills them all.
 Its a film noir.

11.  Two strangers Jerzy and Marta are
1959 two stranger who end up holding
NIGHT TRAIN tickets for the same sleeping
chamber on a train. When police
entre the train in search of a
murderer, rumours fly. And
evidence shows one of the man
characters are culprit..
 Tension is built up by the unknown
crime this murderer has committed,
and the fact there is a murderer on
the train and he's managed to
pinpoint the blame to an innocent
citizen.
 Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

12.  Its an action thriller
1968
 Directed by John Sturges.
ICE STATION
 It is based loosely on a novel by the
ZEBRA same name, they both involve real life
events.
 Commander James Ferraday has new
orders: to get David Jones, a British
civilian and Captain Anders, a tough
Marine with a platoon of troops to the
North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift
Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at
the top of the world. The mission takes
on new and dangerous twists as the
crew finds out that all is not as it seems
at Zebra, and that someone will stop at
nothing to prevent the mission from
being completed.

13. 1960s  It is a psychological thriller. A new type of
PSYCHO thriller emerged in the 1960s , with a
modern emphasis
 the shocking and engrossing thriller
Psycho about a loner mother-fixated
motel owner and taxidermist.
 Psychological thrillers are often slightly
more challenging than other mainstream
movies.
 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock it is one of
his best films, he made it shortly after his
peak of fame.

14.  It‟s a thriller, yet has elements of
1960s horror and action.
BRIDES OF
 They are three seductive female
DRACULA vampire "sisters" who live with Count
Dracula in his castle in Transylvania,
where they attract male humans with
their beauty and charm, and then
continue to feed upon them. Dracula
provides them with victims to devour,
mainly infants and children.
 All inspired by the book „Dracula‟
 Directed by Terence Fisher, he was a
great director of horrors for much of
the 20th centaury.
 Still today directors are trying to
reflect the climax of the 1960s thriller
films

15.  Directed by Michael Powell
 Its a British physiological thriller.
1960s  The title „peeping tom‟ is used to describe
PEEPING TOM voyeurs
 The film revolves around a serial killer who
murders women while using a portable
movie camera to record their dying
expressions of terror.
 Thrilled people because of its different
aspects on society.
 Its controversial subject and the extremely
harsh reception by critics effectively
destroyed Powell's career as a director in
the United Kingdom. However, it attracted
a cult following, and in later years, it has
been re-evaluated and is now considered a
masterpiece

16.  Directed by Don Siegel
 Its an American crime thriller
1971  A sadistic serial killer who calls himself
DIRTY HARRY "Scorpio" murders a young woman in a San
Francisco swimming pool, using a high-powered
rifle from a nearby rooftop. SFPD Inspector
Harry Callahan finds a ransom message
promising his next victims will be "a Catholic
priest or a nigger" if the city does not pay
$100,000. When Scorpio kills a young black boy
from another rooftop, the police believe the
killer will next pursue a Catholic priest. They
wait for Scorpio near a Catholic church where a
shootout ensues, but Scorpio escapes, killing an
officer.
 Scorpio kidnaps, rapes, and buries alive a
teenage girl, then demands twice his previous
ransom before the girl's air runs out.
 Scorpio continues on his mission before it is
short lived. But how.

17.  Directed by Clint Eastwood.
1972
 Its an American physiological thriller film.
PLAY MISTY
 Dave Garver is a radio disc jockey who nightly
FOR ME broadcasts from his studio in California, often
incorporating poetry into his programme. He has a
brief sexual affair with — and then is stalked by —
Evelyn Draper, an obsessed female fan. While
attempting to patch up his shaky relationship with
his girlfriend, Tobie Williams.
 Just when he believes Draper might be out of his
life forever, she becomes Tobie's new roommate
under the false name of "Annabelle“. This results
in a final confrontation between Garver and his
psychopathic fan.
 Eastwood displays a vigorous talent for sequences
of violence and tension. He has obviously seen
Psycho and Repulsion more than once,

18. 1978  Capricorn one is an science fiction
CAPRICORN thriller movie.
ONE  Written and directed by Peter
Hyams
 Seconds before the launch of
Capricorn One, the entire team is
pulled from the capsule and the
rocket leaves earth. The life support
system was faulty and NASA can't
afford the publicity of a scratched
mission. The plan is to fake the Mars
landing and keep the astronauts at a
remote base until the mission is
over, but then investigative
journalist Robert Caulfield starts to
suspect something...

19. 1987
 Its a political thriller
A PRAYER
 Directed by Mike Hodges
FOR THE
 Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who
DYING tries to blow up a troop truck but
instead kills a bus load of school
children. He loses heart and quits the
movement and goes to London trying to
leave the U.K. and start a new life. The
IRA wants him back (he knows too
much) and the local crime boss,
Meehan, will only help him if he
performs one last hit, on a rival crime
boss. When Fallon does perform the hit,
he is seen by a catholic priest. He
refuses to kill an innocent again and
must find a way to escape the police
without killing the priest who can
identify him.

20.  British thriller film
1996  Directed by Danny Boyle, based on a
TRAINSPOTTING novel of the same name.
 A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip
through the darkest recesses of
Edinburgh low-life, focusing on
Mark Renton and his attempt to give
up his heroin habit, and how the
drugs affects his relationship with
family and friends, includng: 14-
year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-
cut athlete Tommy, who's never
touched drugs but can't help being
curious about them.

21. 2006  Its an action thriller
THE DA  Directed by Ron Howard
VINCHY CODE
 Professor Robert Langdon is in
Paris on business when he's
summoned to The Louvre. A dead
body has been found, setting
Langdon off on an adventure as
he attempts to unravel an ancient
code and uncover the greatest
mystery of all time

22.  Dr. Juliet has ended her relationship with
2011 her boyfriend Jack and is seeking an
THE apartment in to live alone. She finds a
RESIDENT bargain in an old apartment building
owned by the Max and one night she goes
out with him. However she concludes that it
is too soon to have a love affair and she asks
Max to leave her apartment. Max is a
deranged man obsessed on her and he spies
on her from secret openings in her
apartment. Max is drugging Juliet every
night and sexually abusing her. Juliet
decides to install a monitoring system in
her apartment. She learns the truth about
Max but how to escape from the insane
landlord?
 Directed by Annti Jokinen.
 Its an supernatural action thriller film.

23.  Views on Hitchcock:
“he acknowledged master of the
thriller genre he virtually invented,
Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant
technician who deftly blended sex,
suspense and humour.”
FAMOUS  Hitchcock created many aspects of
DIRECTORS: the thriller film in including
"subjective sound“.
Alfred Hitchcock  His famous films include: Rear
window, Psycho, Vertigo, Rebecca,
Notorious.
 He revolutionised the thriller film
genre and gave it the strong,
thrilling backbone.

24.  Directed the following films: Dr No (James
bond), Action of the Tiger, Cold Sweat, etc.
 He quickly became an expert in making
thrillers.
 He made low on a low budget, but managed
to turn it in to a worldwide mega seller.
This is what gave Young his famous and
worthy title. In the end Terence Young was
FAMOUS often compared to James Bond, as he had
many similar characteristics. He would
DIRECTORS: wear expensive suits and change his shirt at
least three times a day.
Terence Young  Terence was born in China, Shanghai and
started his screen writing in 1930‟s.
 He was in close competition with Alfred
Hitchcock.

25. KEY ELEMENTS OF A THRILLER FILM....
 The key elements that make a thriller are the camera angles
and timing. In many situations timing of movement id used to
lead the audience in suspense and get them full f mystery.
 All thrillers must have a gripping, powerful story line. That
doesn't lead to disappoint. In many cases the last few scenes
of thriller can be breathe taking and the suspense build to this
point needs to come across as much as the ending.
 It must keep the audience on the edge of their seat, this is why
many directors involve the use of abnormal situations and
characters.
 Super villains, love interest etc. Are other powerful aspects.