Thiller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of literature, film and television that uses suspence, tension and excitment as the main elements. The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock's movies. The cover-up of imprtant information from the viewer and the fight/chase scences are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has it's own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransomes, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/deathtraps, horror-of-personality, and the obsession. Elements such as conspiry theories, false accusations, paranoia, and sometimes action are common in paranoid thrillers. Some argue, though, that thriller genre is simply a pseudonym for the horror genre, both using suspense and atmosphere to cause feelings of dread in their audiences. A thriller is a villain-driven plot, whereby he presents obstacles that the hero must over come.
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