This document summarizes responses from a questionnaire about audience expectations for the thriller genre. Respondents expect thrillers to be scary, fast-paced, and involve mysterious or dark storylines. They feel action thrillers will include fights, explosions, and danger. Some things respondents noted they would not enjoy are love stories, torture scenes, or sci-fi elements. Recent thrillers mentioned include The Purge: Anarchy, James Bond 007 Spectre, and The House at the End of the Street.

1. Questionnaire about audience expectations to the thriller-genre
1. What do you expect when you are going to see a thriller?
 A hard and maybe even brutal story. Some kind of insanity. It depends on
which kind of thriller it is
 I would expect that the thriller is scary and you are going to scare the rest of
your day
 Scary, face paced, maybe a creepy storyline
 A dark mysterious story, which is really interesting
 Action, psychological aspects and a little bit of romantic
2. Especially in an action thriller?
 A fast story and many explosions.
 Fight scenes and scary quests
 Lots of fighting, danger
 Scary scenes and fighting or explosions
 Fights and shot-outs
3. Is there anything you would not enjoy to see?
 Something about love. A thriller shouldn´t include a love story
 Some love scenes
 A sci-fi
 Torture scenes
 Torture of people
4. What was the last thriller you saw?
 The Purge: Anarchy
 -
 James Bond 007 Spectre
 James Bond 007 Spectre
 The house at the end of the street