I've always felt that horror was just a sub-category of thriller films. Horror is defined as, painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay; intense aversion or repugnance; repulsive, horrible, or dismal quality or character. So if the movie has you intrigued and glued to your seat waiting for the next thing thats going to make you jump, you are watching a thriller. Horror is more graphic, they show you exactly whats going on; blood, gore and all. I think of Alfred Hitchcock movies as Thrillers and you never saw a drop of blood. Horrors main purpose is to scare people and to make them cower in fear throughout the movie, but a thriller is made to entertain the audience and keep them on edge throughout, this builds up to a big twist at the end. That is the main diffence between a thriller and a horror in my opinion.
'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a fast thriller film that displays a murder that the audience didnt see and also insanity from a few characters. It has intense music playing through it and it gets faster towards the end when the investigation gets more extreme, also the shot change becomes more frequent so the audience is really on the edge of their seat trying to keep up with what is happening. This displays the perfect thriller film.
'Saw 6' is a contemporary horror film, it display's countless instances of blood and gore and has little or no storyline behind it, although its use of intense music and frequent shot changes is like a tension building thriller. The weakness of the storyline, to supposedly see how far a human would go to save their life, is unrealistic because it seems that they are just trying to create scenarios in which they can show off the blood and gore.
but most thrillers display storylines that are either based on a true story or could genuinely happen.
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