THRILLER GENRE

thriller is a broad term that is used in film marketing, as a positive selling point for many types of films. Thriler is interprited in many ways such as:

• lots of action
• edge of the seat
• thrills
• excitement
• suspense
• engima/intrigue,puzzle

People class the genre Thriller and Horror as one genre however they are very differant. a thriller is the genre where there is suspense, tension, some sort of hidden mystery, engmas. where as a horror genre is scary, gruesome, very graphical, explicit - uses villans such as ghosts, vampiers, zombies and deformed people.

there are several types of thrillers some of them are the following:

• political thriller
• espionage 'spy'
• action
• physcological
• supernatural
• slasher/salker
• erotic
• legal
• crime

What makes a good thriller?

• restricted narrations
• non linear
• enigma codes
• sense of mystery
• red herrings
• theatre of the mind
• sense of realism - for the audience
• twists to put you of the plot
• something to solve