Thriller Research

THRILLER FILMS

there has always been a market for films which intend to scare and thrill the audience. Thrillers originally started out as horrors, including gore and scary themes. Nowadays thrillers have many different sub genres:

• Psychological Thrillers i.e. Gone Girl, Girl on the Train and The Hole (2011) These type of thrillers are supposed to mislead the audience and create a false conception of what is going on.
• Horror Thrillers i.e. The Ring, Sinister and The Shining. These films are created to scare the audience, they do this by creating tension and making the audience jump. They usually involve gore and blood and have a creepy theme.
• Adventure Thriller i.e. The Hunger Games, Divergent and Pirates of the Caribbean. These films are created to excite the audience and entertain, there is an element of tension and fear involved, but are usually more light-hearted.
• Crime Thriller i.e. Sherlock, The Missing and Thirteen. Usually has a mystery element to the plot and is focused around detective work or the police force.

Our thriller film was the sub genre of Psychological thriller because we didn't want to make a film which was scary or tacky with a large excess of special effects, instead we wanted to create something which manipulated the audiences' minds but had a thrilling sort of theme to the plot.

The audience like to be challenged and mislead, predictable storylines make a film not worth watching. Whereas the idea of surprise and bewilderment is an intriguing concept to the audience therefore draws people in to solve the mystery themselves.


Because we were aiming to make an independently produced English film, we are involving the crime related theme as well as it being a psychological thriller, as that is a popular genre for the British public to watch.