HISTORY

Thriller movies are movies which play on peoples fears and creates suspense and tension. A movie that would ‘keep you at the end of your seats’ for the whole movie

Thriller movies have been around for a long time, earliest known thriller being Harold Lloyd’s comic ‘safety last(1923)’ directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor. There have been many genre-hybrids of thrillers, such as  alien(1970) which was a sci-fi-thriller and many more such as mystery-thrillers and crime-thrillers.

Alfred Hitchcock has been seen as the master of thriller films, he has made many thriller films starting with the silent film, The Lodger(1926). In his films he manipulates what the audience feels, and turns them into fear.

Through out the years, the thriller genre has changed to keep up with the changes in social attitudes and stay within the regulations. The role of the femme fatale has changed, they used to be killed off during the movies, but now they are not seen as being weak and easier manipulated now that woman are now seen as more equal.

5 of the top thriller movies are:

5.L. A. Confidential (1997)

4. The Shining(1980)

3. Psycho (1960)

2. Silence of the Lambs (1991)

1. Memento~(2000)