Horror Thriller Genre

All thriller films have differant sub genres which they come from, this could be action thriller or horror thrillers. The main one which most directors choose to base their films on are the horror genre as it tends to make the film more intresting as it scares the audience.

Aspects of films which tells the audience that the film is from a horror genre are as followed:

• Suspense
• Tension
• Dark environment
• Mystery

Horror thrillers are most exciting when the audience feel an atmosphere of what is being shown in the clip. For example when their is a dark scene being show, we may get an atmosphere and sense danger and that something bad is going to happen as we sterotype dark things as being bad.
Examples of good films which are in the horror genre are:

• The silence of the lambs
• 28 days later
• Pysco

Pysco is a iconic film from the horror thriller genre as it has many scenes in it which shows the thriller side. As you can see from the video above that straight away the audience can tell that this film is not going to be a happy film as it starts with music which gets your heart racing and shows clips of body parts which makes the audience start to ask questions such as 'is the person dead?' By the horror film making the audiece ask these types of questions it makes them want to carry on watching to see what happens next.

A man standing with a knife is iconic as a knife is a dangerous object which is now days a main weapon which is used to kill other people. Most horror genres have 'males' who are used to act as the murderer in the scene, this makes it more intense as we are use to watching men in films bring tention as they leave us woundering what is going to happen next.

Pysco is an old film being the reason why it is in black and white, however we there being no colours used we still know that this type of film comes from the horror thriller genre as we still get the cold feeling of what is happening. For example when their is differant shots of what we think is a dead body.

This film also is a crime genre as their is a murder investigation going on so the murder has to be sussed to who killed the person. By crime genre being used it links well with the horror genre as their is a 'murderer' on the lose which would begin to scare the audience as they dont know whethere they are going to get found or not.
By the opening of this horror film having dialogue, it tells us the story of what is going to happen which scares the audience into watching the film as they want to know whats going to happen next.
I personally think that the horror thriller genre is an intresting genre in which most people enjoy watching because they become very intense with a twist which captures most audiences attention.