Thriller Overview

From analysis of different films, and careful watching i have deducted that the thriller genre follows a variety of different factors, one of the main factors is to create tension and suspense, to thrill the audience you need them on the edge of their seat, this is the main priority a thriller strives to create.

Another factor the thriller genre links with is the mystery sense, although it is not as strong as murdered mysteries, the mystery portrait in a character to give them the unknown or the view of they are hiding something is prominently evident throughout films.

Another key concept through Thrillers is low key violence, whether it be a organized hit or a accidental murder, the violence theme in thrillers is less than heavy such as you would get in a action film. The thriller genre tries to portrait violence not as a key and over all concept, but as a basic root for the story line.

But the basic Thriller genre it seems has died down significantly, due to the audiences thirst for more violence, and suspense and thrills, unlike what a original thriller and churn out, causing this genre to be mixed with different genres such as action and horror. Although this may sound like a fallacy to the original genre and what it stands for. I believe it heightens the viewing experience and sets this great genre for more than just what the guidelines set, making amazingly enjoyable movies such as I am legend.

The Village Directed by M. Night Shymalan.

The opening of the extract instantly shows us close up of a tree, as the camera randomly wanders through the branches, giving the sense of lost, and bewilderedness, also positions the audience in a state of walking through the forest, the unclean and messy movement through these trees could suggest being lost, adding to a mystery sense enforcing the thriller genre, the disoriented camera confuses the audience and puts them out of place, creating a uncomfortable feeling. Added with the dark atmosphere and the white dead branches, creates a very cold and uncomfortable theme, the deadness of the tree is also iconic of witches and cultism, adding to a theme of horror, with a close relation to other films such as the Blair Witch Project. The Juxtaposition of the black and white of the trees is iconic in thriller films, between struggles between good and evil, but the unclear sides creates the mystery, what appears alot in thrillers.

The music is high pitched and very creepy, giving a aerie feeling, and defiantly reinforces the horror film, from what we have already seen the genre is perhaps a horror thriller hybrid genre. During the music, although the string noises remain constant creating a creepy theme to what were seeing on screen, there is also a steady drum beat, that increases. As the drum beat increases so does the speed of the tracking, and with this the tension defiantly increases, reinforcing the horror and also the thriller genre, iconic to both those genres.