A thriller is a genre of film and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The main aim of a thriller is to thrill the audience.
Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods such as a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, suspense, excitement, tension, and terror.
A genuine, standalone thriller is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the characters are placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation, for example ‘the silence of the lambs’.
There are many subgenres to thrillers; i.e., action thrillers, psychological thrillers, military thrillers, spy thrillers, sci-fi thrillers, romantic thrillers, etc.
A psychological thriller is many peoples favourite type of thriller. These are a broad ranged thriller with heavy focus on characters. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, along with the typical traits of the thriller genre. In addition to drama and mystery, many psychological thrillers contain elements of, and often overlap with, the horror genre, particularly psychological horror. They focus on the characters mind which can often make the audience think and ask questions for example Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’. Psychological thrillers are still very dramatic like most other thrillers.
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