Sub-genres of a Thriller

Action Adventure thriller - this is usually quite an uncommon thriller. However it brings back childhood fantasies of being the adventurer.


Disaster Thriller - This is where there is some sort of disaster such as a dam bursting, tornado, ship sinking where the protagonists are having to try and survive.


Historical Thriller - These are thrillers that are set in the past, these thrillers are usually quite uncommon


Medical Thriller - where modern medical technology that is supposed to help people is morphed into something deadly.


Religious Thriller - These uses the rich and long history of religion to build stories of high stakes and deadly politics.


Serial Killer Thriller - usually a serial killer terrorizing a group of people with horrific violence. The detectives goal is to stop the killer before he takes the next victim.


Techno Thriller - here technology drives the plot, whether its new military technology for a submarine or forensics.


Conspiracy Thriller - This is where the hero or heroine is usually trapped in a powerful organisation, these often play with the secrecy of governments and major organisations in history.


Crime Thriller - They mainly focus on the criminals and their activities in leading up to the crime or the end of the film leading back to how it all started. Usually include serial killers and murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, heists and double crosses.


Mystery Thriller - Focuses mostly on the efforts of the detective in order to solve the mystery. It looks at the circumstances of the mystery or crime itself to try and figure out what the clues are, audiences usually take part in trying to uncover the crime.


Psychological Thrillers - These play with the audiences minds and produces suspense in film because it reflects the main characters conflict being mental and emotionally hindered.


Supernatural Thriller - brings an otherworldly element that shows something out of the ordinary happening to a protagonist that has to overcome this powerful factor. Protagonist or villains usually have a supernatural gift that helps them get to the source of the problem.


I think this research will help me figure out what subgenre my group want to do if we decide to do one. This is because we briefly know about which sub genres are around and which we have a choice to do. Things are easier to do if we have this research because we can find out about which genres have been used before, but also helped us find out the most unusual. From doing this research, we found that we wanted to look more into Psychological thriller and Supernatural Thrillers and we need to do this in the next few lessons.