What is a thriller?

In this blog i am going to be looking and what is a thriller, what defines and makes it a thriller. My personal description of a thriller is 'a film designed to keep the audience on edge through excitement and suspense'. Thrillers will often use suspense and tension to keep the audience on edge and build anticipation.

A typical example of what a thriller could play on is a crime, a crime thriller will focus on certain crim eg. a murder and it will have a complex narrative structure, false paths, clues and resolutions. They often also play on things like themes of identity and will often have a protaganist that could be in some kind of state or peril.

A example of a thriller is the 'The Dark Knight' this film plays a lot on the feelings of the protaganist, his fears and disires. During the film there are times where we see the protaganist and other characters in danger and we are in suspense to see if they over come this danger. For example when batman is racing against the clock to save his love there is alot of suspense to he see if he will make it or not.