History of a Thriller.
1950's-1960's
Henry Hathoway directed the drama thriller Niagara in 1953. It was the biggest noir film of the year for fox's box office. The drama stars Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, and Max Showalter. A lot of Henry's films he directed had the theme of spies in. They had suspense and mystery, which takes a major part in thrillers.
Alfred Hitchcock was peaking during the 1950-1960's with his most popular movies of those decades being Strangers on a Train (1951), 'Rear Window' (1954), 'Vertigo' (1958),'Psycho' (1960),'The Birds' (1963) and North by Northwest' (1959). He had many themes in all of his thriller films. One being the blonde women being the mysterious women, who usually get killed. A few more of his themes were birds, staircases, trains and silent suspense. Suspense played a big part in all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies.
Sub Genres.
7) Rape and revenge thriller.
These thrillers usually have a fixed plan of:
Act I: A woman is raped/gang raped, tortured, and left for dead.
Act II: The woman survives and rehabilitates herself.
Act III: The woman takes revenge and kills her rapist or rapists.
In some cases the woman may be killed in Act I and the ‘revenge’ is carried out by a family member or close friend. An example of this case would be ‘Memento’ by Christopher Nolan.
8) Supernatural thriller
Supernatural thrillers have a concept of the ‘un-natural’ in them. This can include a super power or a concept of something that wouldn’t happen in real life. An example of a supernatural thriller is a film called Lady in the Water, however a lot of supernatural thrillers are on the verge of being horrors.
9) Eco-thriller
An Eco thriller is a thriller movie set in a usually outdoor environment. For example Jurassic Park, Jaws and movies with different natural environments in.
10) Medical Thriller
This genre is a a thriller containing medical procedures, surgery or medicines. It is a major element of mecical genre. Examples of a medical genre can be The Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouellette and Works by Robin Cook (American novelist)
11) Disaster – (natural disaster)
This type of genre would usually have some kind of natural disaster, or scientific/geographical explinations. For example, would contain an earthquake, flood, or perhaps the end of the world. A good axample of a a disaster thriller would be 'The Road' by John Hillcoat, or 'The Day After Tomorrow' by Roland Emmerich
12) Historical Thriller
A historical thriller would be set in a date in history, An example of a historical thriller could be a war film such as The Pianist by Roman Polanski. Historic thrillers could have a theme in the film, that was a major issue in previous history. War, discrimination or womens' rights are a few issues that could be used in a historic thriller.
13) Religious thriller
A religious thriller would have a concept of religion in it. A few scenes would be likely to be filmed in a Church, Synagogue, or another religious building. An example of a religious thriller would be The Prophecy (1995) by Gregory Widen and Frailty by Bill Paxton.
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