A thriller is a genre of film that is exciting and tense building a high level of anticipation and anxiety.Thrillers are synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, and they have similar characteristics and features. There is often a lot of action and fast passed cuts with complex storyline.
A genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal, providing thrills and cliff-hangers, building up to a climax. Often the main characters are placed in an evil situation or mystery or an escape or dangerous mission that seems impossible.
There are a lot of varieties of thrillers as they are often hybrids; thrillers combined with another genre. For example action/adventure thrillers, sci-fi thrillers, crime thrillers, western-thrillers, film-noir thrillers or even romantic comedy-thrillers. Horror is a closely related genre as it also builds tension and suspense, taking the audience through agony and fear. Again there are many different types of thrillers; such as, murder mysteries, private eye, chase thrillers, women in danger films, courtroom and legal thrillers, erotic thrillers, surreal cult-film soap operas, and atmospheric, plot-twisting psychodramas.
The type of characters in thrillers include criminals, assassins, convicts, stalkers, terrorists, innocent victims, prison inmates, characters hiding something often their dark past, cops, couple and more. The genre of thriller often include terrorism, political conspiracy or romantic triangles leading to a murder.
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