A thriller is a genre that specialises mainly in tension and suspense, the main aim of the films is to make the audience intrigued and 'thrilled'. This can mean it can scare them which ties into the genre of a horror thriller or it can increase adrenaline in the viewers, in which case it would be called a action thriller. Plot twists and cliffhangers are the main elements used in thrillers which create shock and anxiety for the viewers.
Many famous thriller directors include David Fincher, Steven Spielberg and Alfread Hitchcock. Each with their own speciality and ideas but the same elements and concepts are uses: to stimulate the viewer's mood by heart pounding and adrenaline pumping moments. Thrillers go into even more sub-generes such as mystery thrillers and even psychological thrillers which heavily focuses on characters and overlap into the horror side.
Thriller films can be traced back to early 1920's where Alfred Hitchcock made his first movie, 'The Lodger' which was a silent production of the London Fog. From his first release to his most popular which includes 'Psycho', he is considered to be the godfather of thriller films.
Thrillers tend to have a storyline which normally revolve around:
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