Thrillers are a diverse genre that includes many variations and subgenres, with new types constantly being invented. The common element that unites thrillers is that they create intense emotions of apprehension, exhilaration, excitement, and breathlessness in order to generate suspense and thrill the audience. For a story to be considered a thriller, it must include some type of crime or wrongdoing and thrill the audience. Conventions of the thriller genre include quick cuts, camera angle changes, tense music, and the use of lighting and shadows to create a sense of tension and jump scares. However, some thrillers like Phone Booth avoid these conventions by telling the story from the killer's perspective and playing with the audience's mind

1. THRILLERS
definition:
There are all kinds. The list goes on and on, with new variations constantly being invented. In fact, this openness
to expansion is one of the genre's most enduring characteristics. But what gives the variety of thrillers a
common ground is the intensity of emotions they create, particularly those of apprehension and exhilaration, of
excitement and breathlessness, all designed to generate that all-important thrill. By definition, if a thriller doesn't
thrill, it's not doing its job. A thriller also has to have some sort of crime in its core or its doesn’t fit the category.
Thriller codes and conventions.
The conventions of the thriller genre are 2 do with sound and editing. E.g. quick cuts and camera angle changes, music that
gives tension and is laud to create jump effects when appropriate. It can b 2 do with lighting, especially the use of shadow.
mirrors and stairs are also conventions of thriller movies.
phone booth in particular is a thriller that does not play 2 the conventions, it avoids darkness and shadow etc. the one way
2 link it to standard conventions is to say that u hear and see the story from the killers point of view, u r made 2 feel sorry
for the male protagonist and that u r told a story with the use of flashback and quick passed editing. otherwise the this film
is unlike most thriller movies and avoids the main conventions and may even not b classed as thriller but psychological
thriller as it plays with ur mind rather than shows u like a conventional thriller.
Types of thriller
legal thriller,
spy thriller,
action-adventure thriller,
medical thriller,
police thriller,
romantic thriller,
historical thriller,
political thriller,
religious thriller,
high-tech thriller,
Military thriller.
Psychological thriller
Supernatural thriller
Directors
Jon Amiel Alfred Hitchcock Wolfgang Petersen
Bryan Bertino Gregory Hoblit Roman Polanski
John Boorman Stephen Hopkins Sydney Pollack
D.J. Caruso John Huston Carol Reed
Henri-Georges Clouzot Neil Jordan Joel Schumacher
Joel and Ethan Coen Philip Kaufman Martin Scorsese
Jonathan Demme Stanley Kubrick Ridley Scott
Brian De Palma Adrian Lyne Tony Scott
David Fincher John McTiernan M. Night Shyamalan
Gary Fleder Dick Maas Steven Soderbergh
James Foley Michael Mann Steven Spielberg
John Frankenheimer Christopher Nolan Quentin Tarantino
William Friedkin Phillip Noyce Tom Tykwer
Robert Harmon Alan J. Pakula Orson Welles
Mary Harron Billy Wilder
Peter Jackson