The Thriller

The thriller is a very difficult genre to pin down because it covers such a wide range of films. Thrillers are films of suspense... that are supposed to instil terror into the audience.' - susan hayward, key concept in film studies.

there are lots of different types of thrillers some of these consist of;

• spy thriller 
• political thriller 
• conspiracy thriller 
• legal thriller 
• psychological thriller 

"when you enjoy something, you must never let logic get too much in the way,like the villains in all the James Bond movies. Whenever Bond breaks into the complex; 'ah Mr. Bond, welcome, come in, let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesn't.' "

      Jerry Seinfeld (sein language, 1993)