Phychological thriller

Psychological thrillers:

It’s a popular sub-genre of thrillers with heavy focus on characters.  Thrillers ties in elements of mystery and drama genre. Physiological thrillers contain elements of horror genre,

In a psychological film plot, the characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to over their enemies but are reliant oh their mental resources by battling for the opposite force in the characters own mind.

The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying one another’s mind.

Theme:

Psychological thrillers tend to follow certain themes which is the main point of the story.

• Death
• Reality
• Identity
• Existence
• Purpose

Convection of a psychological thriller:

Convection of physiological thriller will include things like:

• Low level lighting: this creates shadows, creating tension and fear
• Quick edits and changes in camera angle: creates adrenaline rush, increasing fear and shock.
• Music: high volume screech, slow eerie and silence, this hold the audience breath as they don’t now what to expect.
• Flashback: to confuse the audience or showing the past to give and insight into why characters are the way they are.
• Black and white colouring: increases the effect of shadow
• Font/ colour of title:  titles are mostly written against a black background to emphasize the theme of the film but this doesn’t apply to all thrillers.