Research on Thriller and Horror

Sometimes people get confused of what is the difference between horror and thriller. The main key difference is the codes and conventions such as horror is more blood and thriller is more surprises/cliff-hangers. Thriller movies are normally taken place in exciting places, busy cities or even in a forign country. These are fast pacing and the action taken place is done quickly.

Sub-genre
There is not just one type of thriller, there are many sub-genre thrillers that have been listed below. Most thrillers are 12Aa, 15 and 18 this is because the scenes that are not suitable for people under these ages. This is due to violence and disturving scenes.
1). Action Thriller
Action thriller consists of violence, action, race against time, guns explosions and much more. This genre combines with action as well as thriller, this genre is usually a 12A. The common action thrillers are listed below;

1. Death Race
2. James Bond films
3. The Dark Knight

2). Crime Thriller

Crime thriller are popular to watch as it features murders, robberies, chase, and shootouts. This is maily liked by men more then woman that is the sterotype that is given. The crime focus on the criminal views not the police officers and each scene builds up to more to a tension and suspence climax. Below are well known crime thriller movies;

1. The Godfather
2. The Bank Job
3. Batman

The above image shows that thriller movies are more popular than horror and romantic comedy. Sherlock Holmes is the second one on the list that is a thriller movie, Romantic Comedy is the forth on the list called It's Complicated and horror is the seventh one on the list called Daybreakers.

HORROR

Horror is enjoyed by nearly every one and the codes and conventions are clear enough to know the difference between any genre. Horror has sub-genres such as Psycholgical horror, Fantasty (supernatural) horror, slasher (serial killers/ teen) horror. They are the main sub-horror.

• Slasher (serial killers/ teen) horror

This horror is enjoyed by many and most of the films have got a part 2 and even more. This focuses around a serial killer and most of the time the victim is a teenager. These types of films are like Saw and Halloween.

• Psychological horror

This is mainly a female role that is the main character and usually is based on realistic events. It focus on tention rather than the the gore adn graphic horror.

• Fantasy (supernatural) horror

This horror is supernatural but still tends to frighten the audience. Once again it is common for a female to be in the Central to the event. Supernatural refers to vampires, ghosts, demons and spirts. The films that go under this sub-genre are The Ring, The Grudge and The Omen.

Horror are designed to frighten and to raise our unknown most unpleasant fears often in a terrifying shocking way. Whilst entertaining use as at the same time.