Thriller Sub Genre

Thriller Film is a genre that revolves around anticipation and suspense. The aim for Thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on the edge of their seats. The protagonist in these films is set against a problem – an escape, a mission, or a mystery. No matter what sub-genre a Thriller film falls into, it will emphasize the danger that the protagonist faces. The tension with the main problem is built on throughout the film and leads to a highly stressful climax.

 

Action Thriller

Action or Thriller genre often involve a typical theme heroes and villains, guns and other weapons. Although most action genres are realistic, as it has many subgenres such as adventure, spy, war and Super hero movies. Most action films contain moderate forms of gore and violence such as fight sequences, wars violence, torture and etc., that is where the thriller side comes into it as they always keep you on the edge of your seat, they usually contain suspense, murders or psychopaths, mysteries and twists.

 

 

Comedy Thriller

Comedy thrillers are a hybrid genre that draw subject matter generally from comedy, thrillers, spy, science-fiction, action, horror and suspense. They include a disproportionate amount, relative to other genres, of humour.

 

 

Conspiracy Thriller

The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction. The protagonists of conspiracy thrillers are often journalists or amateur investigators who find themselves (often inadvertently) pulling on a small thread which unravels a vast conspiracy that ultimately goes "all the way to the top."

 

Crime Thriller

Crime thriller is basically a thriller that concentrates on the impact of a crime on the protagonist. It is not always necessary that the perpetrator of the crime be kept secret, as in a mystery novel, though this can also be a staple ingredient. However, as long as a crime forms a backdrop to the thriller plot, then we have ourselves a crime thriller.

 

Erotic Thriller

The erotic thriller is a film and literary subgenre which consists of a thriller, that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements, with an element of eroticism. The genre became popular, especially in the United States, from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, before declining in marketability.

In some films, the development of a sexual relationship (or even a one-night stand) is often used to create tension in the storyline, especially if the people involved should not be sleeping together.

 

Legal Thriller

The legal thriller is a subgenre of thriller and crime fiction in which the major characters are lawyers and their employees. The system of justice itself is always a major part of these works, at times almost functioning as one of the characters.

 

Political Thrillers

A political thriller is a thriller that is set against the backdrop of a political power struggle.

 

Psychological Thriller

Psychological thriller is a thriller story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states.

 

Spy Thriller

The spy film genre, which is often considered a subgenre of thriller and/or action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy.

Spy films show the espionage activities of government agents and their risk of being discovered by their enemies. Offering a combination of exciting escapism, technological thrills, and exotic locales, the spy film combines the action and science fiction genres, presenting clearly delineated heroes for audiences to root for and villains for them to hiss.

 

Supernatural Thriller

Supernatural Thriller in which the film brings in an otherworldly element (such as fantasy and/or the supernatural) mixed with tension, suspense and plot twists. Sometimes the protagonist and/or villain has some psychic ability and superpowers.

 

Techno Thriller

Techno Thriller is a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.