Genre Research

CONSPIRACY THRILLER

v Includes heroes and heroines

v Stereotypically, journalists and armature investigators who are trapped in powerful organizations

v Protagonists cause bad events while the protagonists identify them and defeat them

v The organization is then usually ‘brought down’ by the protagonists

CRIME THRILLER

v Central topics include serial killers, murders, robberies, chases and shootouts

v The hybrid is designed to create extreme suspense

v Would focus on the criminal and leading events up to the successful or failed crime

DISASTER THRILLER

v The films would follow people fighting for survival after a natural or artificial disaster

MYSTERY THRILLER

v Relates to crime thrillers

v Focuses on the private investigator solving the mystery

v Audiences can take part to try and solve the crime too

POLITICAL THRILER

v Common themes are political corruption, terrorism and warfare

v Someone tries to gain political power while an opponent tries to stop them

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

v Plays with the audiences mind

v Film produces suspense because it reflects the main characters conflict being mentally and emotionally hindered

v Shows the thought process a character will go through

RELIGIOUS THRILLER

v The plot tends to connect to religious objects

v Some religious thrillers will unravel good and bad points of religion

v The good will overcome the bad, through a quest to finding out the truth