A Thriller is a type of film known to promote intense excitement, suspense, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. They are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.
Tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a threatening situation or mystery, an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the main character is involved in a deadly or dangerous situation.
There are lots of different thrillers:
· Action- or adventure- thrillers
· Sci-fi thrillers (such as Alien)
· Crime-caper thrillers (The French Connection)
· Western-thrillers (High Noon)
· Film-noir thrillers (Double Indemnity)
· Even romantic comedy-thrillers (Safety Last)
Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre. The horror is also designed to create tension and suspense, taking the viewer trough agony and fear.
Thrillers come in all different shapes and forms: 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.
Characters in the thriller: convicts, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims, prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters and more.
The themes in thrillers include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.
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