“Thrillers are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension.”
a thriller is characterized by "the sudden rush of emotions, the excitement, sense of suspense, apprehension, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant, breakneck pace".
Typical storyline:
The hero, who may even be an ordinary citizen drawn into danger and intrigue by circumstances beyond their control faces a more-powerful and better-equipped villain alone or in the company of a small band of companions.
· Jeopardy and violence confrontations are standard plot elements.
· The plot of a thriller is usually driven by the villain, who presents obstacles that the hero must overcome.
· The withholding of crucial information from the viewer is an important device
Typical music/sounds:
Typical music for a horror thriller would be high pitched orchestra or a low sounding tense music, and then in a typical thriller you get music with low tones and string and brass instruments.
Sounds for a horror thriller would be heavy breathing, load footsteps, crow screams and possible low talking.
Typical characters
Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.
· Often used/typical characters: convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitous individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more.
Typical settings:
· A typical horror thriller would be set in a abandoned village were e.g. zombies have eaten all the villages were as a romantic horror would be set in a city or a French alpine village
Subgenres:
action-thriller, adventure-thriller, sci-fi thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir, romantic-thriller, comedy-thriller
This pie diagram about the DVD rental share 2005 in the UK shows the relevanz of thriller films in the film industry. (Thrillers, 20.7%)
(Pat Henbury, Alex Mutu, Anton Heil)
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