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4) What would you be looking for in a thriller?
• Crime, drugs, love, excitement
• Blood, gore, good plot
• Fear, deep-thinking plot (lots of twists and turns), gore
• Slightly complicated storyline with twists and surprises but which make sense
at the end
• Gangsters
• Gore, suspense
• To be scared and surprised, for it not to be predictable
• Lots of action, good acting, no gasmasks, a good twist at the end
• Good plot, good plotline
• Sex, gore
• Unexpected endings, logical ending
• Mystery – murders, fighting
• Creepy mentally ill people, mystery, weird people with an unknown history
that is found out during the film
• Interesting twists, unexpected plot
5) What is a recent thriller film that you have seen and enjoyed? Why did you enjoy
it?
• Shutter Island - was really cleverly made and had an unexpected ending
• Hide and Seek – there is mystery and psychological creepy stuff
• Taken - it had an unexpected ending
3. • Shutter Island – unexpected ending and story
• Pulp Fiction – had drugs, gore, and black comedy
• The departed- because it’s the bomb
• Shutter Island – clever film
• Saw – I like because it’s gory
• Halloween
• Rock n Rolla – overlapping plots, characters with humour and gravitas
• Shutter Island – excellent cast, strong character portrayal, surprises, hard to
second guess, satisfying end
• Evil Dead- old, no CGI so interesting special effects
• Inception – plays on your mind, keeps you on the edge of your seat all the
way through
• Resident Evil Afterlife – action + gore
6) What kind of characters would you expect to be featured within in a thriller?
• Murderers
• A psycho, an annoying victim
• Bad guys, mysterious people, damsel in distress
• Murderer/criminal, hero, love interest
• Aliens
• Main character that experiences something surreal and everyone thinks
they’re crazy
• Psychotic character of some sort, victims, hero/heroine
• Mentally ill, weird, paedophiles, mad, evil , murders
• Bad guys
• Killers
• Group of people, mixed gender
• Killers, detectives, damsels in distress
• Realistic, but with psychological problems + snatches of extreme behaviours
• Innocent victims, with angst ridden hero/heroine, villain who could be
identified with Stockholm Syndrome
7) How would you describe an ideal villain? Visually and personality wise.
• Good looking but marred, scarred, albino . personality – sociopath or
tortured
• Clever but ‘sick’
• Bad alien, purple, six hands
• Evil, mysterious
• Dark clothing, evil, world dominator
• Unemotional, tall, dark hair
• Child, creepy, murderer, old fashioned, long hair, dirty, evil-looking
• Tall, skinny, dark, long tangled hair, scars, mentally unstable, psycho, quiet
• Tall, brutal, or seemingly innocent person
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• Dark and evil, with a good evil cackle
• Looks like a rough guy, obviously doesn’t conform to social expectancy
• Calm, precise, intelligent, creative in ways of killing people
• Intimidating, strange features, clever, weird views on life
• An intelligent, sexy woman with an evil side
8) Ideal location
Other suggestions were, a busy city, a home or somewhere usually safe and not
associated with death
9) Favourite place to view a film
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See a thriller
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cinema
Rent a thriller
film
Purchase a
thriller film on
DVD or Blu
Ray
Download a
thriller film from
the internet
Other
10) Which would you rather do?
Other suggestion was Sky TV
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See a thriller
film once at a
cinema
Rent a thriller
film
Purchase a
thriller film on
DVD or Blu
Ray
Download a
thriller film from
the internet
Other
10) Which would you rather do?
Other suggestion was Sky TV
