Conventions of a thriller:
A thriller is a film that consists of an exciting and tense plot designed to 'thrill' the audience. It creates this effect by building suspense, excitement, and tension for its main elements. A thriller is designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats as the plot build towards its climax. There also tends to be a continuous occurrence of red herrings, plot twists, and cliff hangers.
Sub genres of thrillers:
Psychological thrillers: Emphasises the psychology of its character and their unstable emotional states and is designed to toy with the audiences thoughts.
Crime thrillers: Crime thrillers are thrillers that focus on the lives of criminals and are often based on real life crime figures or the far fetched evil plans of a villainous antagonist.
Erotic thrillers: Regularly consists of sexual acts and loving scenes.
Mystery thrillers
Spy thrillers: Usually a government agent who has to thwart an opposing rival government or terrorist group.
Political thrillers: Recreation of a recent political problem.
Military thrillers: Based on military action such as wars etc.
Conspiracy thrillers: The hero goes against an organisation that only they see its true villainous intentions.
Forensic thrillers: The hero who's a forensic expert and recent involvement of an unsolved crime puts their lives at risk.
Horror thrillers
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