Thrillers promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension.
A genuine thriller is a film that restlessly pursues a single goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually comes when the main character or characters is placed in a certain situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.
These are famous thrillers:
Rear Window(1954)
Psycho (1960)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Shaw shank Redemption (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Memento (2000)
Chinatown (1974)
Fight Club (1999)
North by Northwest (1959)
The French Connection (1971)
A genuine thriller is a film that restlessly pursues a single goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually comes when the main character or characters is placed in a certain situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.
These are famous thrillers:
Rear Window(1954)
Psycho (1960)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Shaw shank Redemption (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Memento (2000)
Chinatown (1974)
Fight Club (1999)
North by Northwest (1959)
The French Connection (1971)
