Thrillers are films that use suspense, tension, and excitement to keep audiences alert and on the edge of their seats. Common subgenres include psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, and mystery thrillers. Thrillers emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces in solving a problem like a mission, escape, or mystery. While horror aims to invoke fear through gruesome images, thrillers focus more on psychological suspense through their intricate storylines.

1. THRILLERS About the genre...

2. What is a thriller? Thriller is a broad genre of film, it uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. Thriller films tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, and fast-paced. Thrillers always include a problem that must be solved by the hero. The aim for thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. The protagonist (main character) in these films is set against a problem – an escape, a mission, or a mystery. No matter what sub-genre a thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the hero faces. Common subgenres are psychological thrillers, crime thrillers and mystery thrillers

3. Famous thriller films: Seven Drive Memento Inception Pulp fiction The silence of the lambs Vertigo Physco Die hard The departed

4. Differences The difference between horror and the thriller genre are that the main point of horror is to invoke fear, gruesome images and out of proportion issues, whereas Thriller is about holding suspense with a more intricate storyline. In a Thriller, the fear is a lot more psychological based, where as a Horror has the gruesome graphics on screen. You could say thriller is based on suspense, where as horror is surprise.

5. Lighting Lighting is very effective in the use of film and media as it helps to express mood and atmosphere in a scene. It can be used for various effects such as weather, casting shadows and building tension as well as suspense within a scene, however its main use is usually to draw attention to a particular area or person’s gesture. Lighting is usually dim to set the scene where villains are concerned and for the hero it is light and positive .

6. Setting Setting also varies in thrillers depending on what subgenre it is. Ranging from rural area’s to more built up modern locations, however thrillers are more likely to be set in a modern location with new technology because most of the story line’s revolve around the setting and it is very important when sorting the plot line etc.

7. Camera In thriller’s, the main camera shots used are close ups of characters and tension is built up the most within them as thriller contains a lot tension building and tracking shots to show the scene and where people are going, midsh3ew sssssssssssssssssssssssssots are also used a lot as the individual expression and mannerisms are important within the genre of film.