Thrillers often get mixed up with Horror movies and people find it difficult to differentiate from the two unless you know more about films. We learnt that thriller films are more about the built up tension and the suspense in the film. However horror movies are more to do with gore and people being killed aggressively and shown to the audience. It is more graphic.
Alfred Hitchcock's movies such as 'Psycho' would be classified as a thriller as it gives the audience's mood a high level of anticipation, anxiety, uncertainty and surprise. Along with many other of Alfred Hitchcok's movies he helped to shape the modern day thriller genre. Fritz Lang and Hitchcock started this by introducing the film 'The Lodger.' The clip below is the trailer for the movie and you can already feel the suspense the audience was intended to feel.
There are many sub genres to thrillers, such as psychological, crime, mystery, political, and spy thrillers. In all of these the main aim is to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
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