It is hard to describe what a thriller is, due to the amount of emotions that most people feel during a thriller movie. This is why is it known as a meta genre. There are many different types of thrillers. The most common types of thrillers are thriller horrors, psychological thrillers and action thrillers. The most successful thrillers are those which play with our most basic worries. It does this by drawing horrible, sick and repressive thoughts in our minds. These thoughts are usually violent, sexual orvoyeristic thoughts. These are the thoughts that create the feeling of tension and fear, and make our hearts beet faster and the adrenalin to feel bigger. This raises what’s called questions or enigma codes in the mind of the viewer like "what happens next?" and "will he get away?".Most thrillers have what is called a universal theme. This is usually how the characters within the movie are struggling with things such as love, death and money. It is all of these struggles which usually enthral the spectator. The directors also enthral the spectator by making them feel tension through the sense of delay. This is effective as the spectator feel relieve when something does happen, as the tension has snapped.
The thriller genre can also be viewed as sadomasochistic. This is where we as a viewer receive, enjoy watching things like others suffering. This is usually the reason why directors put sick, un-humorous scenes in films.
A thriller must evoke visceral, gut-level feelings rather than more sensitive, delicate emotions.
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