Thriller Films are types of films known to include intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension.
A genuine thriller is a film that restlessly pursues a single goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension will usually arises when the main characters are placed in a menacing situation or mystery. Life itself is always threatened, usually because the character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces.
There are many different types of thriller. These include suspense-thrillers, action or adventure thrillers, crime-caper thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers and even romantic-comedy thrillers.
A close related genre to thriller is horror. This is because horror film are designed to uphold tension and suspense, taking the viewer through agony and fear like thrillers do.
Suspense-thrillers come in all different shapes and forms: there are murder mysteries, private eye tales, chase thrillers, women-in-danger films, courtroom and legal thrillers, erotic thrillers, surreal cult-film soap operas, and atmospheric, plot-twisting psychodramas. Thrillers keep the emphasis away from the gangster, crime, or the detective in the crime-related plot, focusing more on the suspense and danger that is generated.
Characters in thrillers include convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitous individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.
Examples of a Thriller includes - The Godfather (1972), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Fight Club (1999), Psycho (1960), The Unusual Suspects (1995), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and The Matrix (1999).
Information obtained from -
http://uk.imdb.com/chart/thriller
http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html
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