What is a Thriller? Thriller Genre

A Thriller is a genre of films or television, which creates suspense, tension and excitement as their main elements. Thrillers stimulate the viewer's mood also giving them a high anticipation and maybe uncertainty, anxiety and terror. These types of films normally tend to be adrenaline-rushing and fast pace to create the tension and suspense. Its more than likely a Thriller will provide the viewer a rush of emotions and excitement which brings them to the edge of their seats. Thrillers tend to be psychological, threatening, mysterious. Cliff hangers, plot twist and red herrings are used quite a lot in Thrillers to keep the viewers intrigued and kept wondering.  Most Thrillers will include protagonists and antagonists to create the excitement story of battling against one another.

Here is a link of Old fashioned Thriller films; http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/444810/index.html

List of recent Thrillers;

• Left behind
• A Walk Among the Tombstones
• As Above, So Below
• The Maze Runner
• The Equalizer
• The November Man
• Divergent

I have chosen the trailer The Equalizer to present the genre of thriller. I have done this because I think it creates tension, suspicion with action beside it. This also uses a lot of excitement, cliff hangers and plot twists.