The document discusses several subgenres of thriller films including psychological thrillers, crime thrillers, mystery thrillers, horror thrillers, religious thrillers, spy thrillers, and disaster thrillers. Psychological thrillers focus on unstable emotional states and twist endings. Crime thrillers follow criminals' journeys and use action and psychology. Mystery thrillers center on detectives solving crimes. Horror thrillers aim to scare audiences through gore and nightmares. Religious thrillers involve supernatural church mysteries. Spy thrillers depict heroes fighting government agents. Disaster thrillers feature threats like floods, volcanoes or alien invasions bringing the world to an end.

1. The Thriller Genre
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2. Psychological Thriller
What is a Psychological Thriller?
A psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of a ranged thriller with an important focus on the unstable emotional
states of characters, in combination with mystery and thriller. This is a film that catches the audience attention
because of the twist in the film. It also plays with the audience minds.

3. Crime based Thrillers
What is a Psychological Thriller?
These are films that focus on the journey of the criminals life. It could be a murderer, robbery,
serial killer. Crime thrillers uses both action and psychological aspects to build tension and
suspense.

4. Mystery Thrillers
What is mystery thriller?
It focuses on the effort of the private investigator or detective
in order to solve the mystery. It allows the audience to get involve as they try to figure out
what is happening and uncover the crime. Mystery thriller also relates to crime thriller.

5. Horror Thrillers
What is horror thriller?
Horror genre is a film that is aimed to scare the audience with bloody scenes through fear and nightmares that
strive to draw out the emotions of disgust. Horror is an ancient art form that consists of tales which trigger the
less logical parts of our imaginations.

6. Religious Thriller
What is religious thriller?
Religious thriller revolves around the religious aspect. Most religious thrillers include supernatural
experience such as demons and mysteries within the church. Most of the times, they go
through a lot in order to find out about the truth.

7. Spy Thrillers
• This is when the hero takes violent action against the
government agents. Examples of spy thrillers include The
Bourne identity and mission impossible.

8. Disaster Thriller
The thriller is caused by some sort of natural or artificial disaster such as
floods, volcanoes, earthquake or hurricanes. These are the type of storyline
that brings the world to an end because its either aliens invading the world.