The Thriller

What is a Thriller?

• Physco
• The birds
• Paranormal activity
• Point break
• North by north west
• 127 hours
• Source code
• Saw

'Thriller is a very difficult genre to pin down because it covers such a wide range of films, Thrillers are films of suspense that are supposed to instil the terror into the audience' - Susan Hayward, Key concepts in Film Studies.

Different categories of thrillers:

• Spy Thrillers
• Political Thrillers
• Conspirisacy Thrillers
• Legal Thrillers
• Phycological Thrillers

"When you enjoy something you must never let the logic get too much into the way. Like the villans in the James Bond film whenever Bond breaks into the complex - 'Ah Mr Bond, welcome, come in, let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesn't work' " - Jerry Seinfield.