Thrillers

A genuine thriller is usually a film that provides thrills and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats throughout the whole of the film. There is usually tension when the protagonist is caught in a scary situation or mystery where the escape seems impossible.

The most famous film maker or director is Alfred Hitch cock. Who has made many thriller movies which include films such as '39 steps'(1935), 'The lady vanishes'(1938) and 'Notorious'(1946) His films often placed an innocent victim into a strange or life threatening situation caused because of mistaken identity, misidentification or wrongful accusation.

From the 1990's to the present day the thrillers are usually psychological ones which often have domestic violence, obsession, revenge and mentally ill characters in them where the main character have to try and escape, this decade of films were influenced mainly by the psychological thriller film 'Dead calm' in 1989 which had elements of obsession with a trapped protagonist on a yacht trying to escape from the villainous castaway.

Thriller films still often use elements which have been used in the past. However, they have changed slightly so that the audiences get to see something new. Now there are many recent thrillers that have more horror elements in them with much more gore and violence and terror involved.