- High level of anticipation
- Heightened expectation
- Uncertainty
- Anxiety
- Suspense
- Excitement
- Tension
- Terror
Devices such as 'red herrings' and 'cliffhangers' are abused extensively to mess with your head to create the above emotions and moods.
The most common methods in 'Crime' thrillers are mainly:
- Ransom
- Captivity
- Heists
- Revenge
- Kidnapping
'Mystery' Thrillers normally focus on:
- Investigations
- Whodunit Technique
The main thriller type 'psychological' thrillers uses techniques such as:
- Mind Games
- Psychological themes
- Stalking
- Confinement/Deathtraps
- Horror-Of-Personality
- Obsession
'Paranoid' thrillers use elements such as:
- Fringe theories
- False accusations
- Paranoia
- Action (Sometimes)
A standalone thriller, is a film that provides such things as thrills, and keeping the audience at the 'edge of their seats' through cliff-hangers and the audience should get further towards the edge of their seats all the way through the film as the plot closes towards the 'climax.' The tension usually grows when a main character(s) is placed in:
- A tense situation
- A mystery
- A trap (in which seems impossible to escape from)
Life is normally threatened in a thriller movie when a character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly in a dangerous or potentially a very deadly situation.
The plot of a Thriller movie normally entails the characters which coming into conflict with each other or come into contact with outside forces (The treat is sometimes abstract or unseen). 'Crime' Thrillers, normally keep attention away from the criminal or the detective, the audience are more focused on the suspense and danger that is generated in a situation.
Thriller movies that exploit the thriller genre the most are movies such as:
- The Talented Mr. Ripely
- The Silence Of Lambs
- Eden Lake
- The Last House On The Left
- P2
- Captivity
- Funny Games
- Joy Ride
- Unknown
- Hostage
- Cellular
- A History Of Violence
- Firewall
'Conspiracy' Thrillers which use all the right conventions are:
- Awake
- Snake Eyes
- Edge of Darkness
- Absolute Power
- Marathon Man
- In the Line of Fire
- Capricorn One
- JFK
'Crime' Thrillers are normally hybrid genres. Good 'Crime' Thriller movies are:
- Seven
- No Country for Old Men
- Silence of Lambs
- Untraceable
- Mindhunters
- Kiss the Girls
- Along Came a Spider
- Copycat
- The Asphalt Jungle
- The Score
- Rififi
- Oceans 11
- Entrapment
- The Killing
- Reservoir Dogs
Good 'Erotic' Thriller movies are:
- Basic Instinct
- Chloe
- Colour of Night
- Dressed to Kill
- Eyes Wide Shut
- In the Cut
- Lust
- Caution
- Single White Female
The 'Legal' Thriller, good movie list consists of:
- The Client
- Fracture
- A Time to Kill
- Primal Fear
- A Few Good Men
- Presumed Innocent
- The Juror
'Political' Thrillers good movie list entails movies such as:
- The Sentinel
- Topaz
- Notorious
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The Interpreter
- Proof of Life
- State of Play
- The Ghost Writer
'Psychological' Thriller movies that hold all the right credentials are:
- Suspicion
- Shadow of Doubt
- Strangers on a Train
- Blue Velvet
- The Talented Mr. Ripely
- The Machinist
- Don't Say a Work
- House of 9
- Trapped
- Flightplan
- Shutter Island
- Secret Window
- Identity
- Red Eye
- Phone Booth
- Psycho
- The River Wild
- Nick of Time
- P2
- Breakdown
- Panic Room
- Misery
- Cape Fear
- The Collector
- Frailty
- The Good Son
- Funny Games
'Rape and Revenge' and 'Supernatural' Thriller Films are a sub genre of Thriller movies, they use all the same conventions. Some good movies in this category are:
- The Last House on the Left
- Irreversible
- A Cruel Picture
- Baise-moi
- Spit on Your Grave
- Lady in the Water
- Fallen
- Knowing
- In Dreams
- Flatliners
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Skeleton Key
- What Lies Beneath
- Unbreakable
- The Gift
- The Dead Zone
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