What is A Thriller Film?:
A "thriller" film is a film that promote intense and excitement to keep the audience interested. Most thrillers will usually have some sort of key features e.g. deaths, a fightscene or even gore etc, to keep the audience "at the edge of their seats" and want to watch on to find out what happens.Thriller films cover a variety of genre's from action to science fiction to horror. Most thriller films are hybrids (have two genre's) these can range from psycological thriller to an action thriller. There are millions of thriller films in the world to date.
A Famous Example:
A really famous hybrid thriller is "halloween" containing the iconic and infamous Michael Myers the fictional serial killer. Halloween is a horror thriller. Horror and thrillers are very simular to each other because both genre's provide thrills and shocks for their audience. Thriller films are even mixed with almost all other genre's and in most other films you will find certain aspects or signifiers (semiotics) of a thriller.
The History Of Thrillers:
The thriller genre ame around in the early 1920's with such classic movies such as "Safety Last", from then the thriller genre became even more popular and the Thriller genre is still around today such examples are "Cloverfield" (sci fi/thriller) (2008), "Death race" (action/thriller) (2008) and finally a really famous thriller "The texas chainsaw massacre (the beginning)" (horror/thriller) (2007). so as you can see thriller films have had some of the most famous icons in them e.g. Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees etc.
A Famous Thriller Director:
A very famous thriller director (especially in the 1960's/70's) is Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock created some of the most famous thrillers such as "Psycho" (horror/thriller) (1960) and "The Birds" (Horror/Thriller) (1963). These are a few examples of Hitchcocks most famous and recognised films for scaring many audiences.
Resources:
http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html
http://www.uf.susu.org/films/genres/thrillers
A "thriller" film is a film that promote intense and excitement to keep the audience interested. Most thrillers will usually have some sort of key features e.g. deaths, a fightscene or even gore etc, to keep the audience "at the edge of their seats" and want to watch on to find out what happens.Thriller films cover a variety of genre's from action to science fiction to horror. Most thriller films are hybrids (have two genre's) these can range from psycological thriller to an action thriller. There are millions of thriller films in the world to date.
A Famous Example:
A really famous hybrid thriller is "halloween" containing the iconic and infamous Michael Myers the fictional serial killer. Halloween is a horror thriller. Horror and thrillers are very simular to each other because both genre's provide thrills and shocks for their audience. Thriller films are even mixed with almost all other genre's and in most other films you will find certain aspects or signifiers (semiotics) of a thriller.
The History Of Thrillers:
The thriller genre ame around in the early 1920's with such classic movies such as "Safety Last", from then the thriller genre became even more popular and the Thriller genre is still around today such examples are "Cloverfield" (sci fi/thriller) (2008), "Death race" (action/thriller) (2008) and finally a really famous thriller "The texas chainsaw massacre (the beginning)" (horror/thriller) (2007). so as you can see thriller films have had some of the most famous icons in them e.g. Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees etc.
A Famous Thriller Director:
A very famous thriller director (especially in the 1960's/70's) is Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock created some of the most famous thrillers such as "Psycho" (horror/thriller) (1960) and "The Birds" (Horror/Thriller) (1963). These are a few examples of Hitchcocks most famous and recognised films for scaring many audiences.
Resources:
http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html
http://www.uf.susu.org/films/genres/thrillers
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