Thrillers are generally about confronting our fears of staying alive, the anxieties and paranoias that plague us every day, and the consequences we fear that prevent us from living more exciting, albeit dangerous lives. There’s a reason the body count is usually much higher in a conventional horror movie. Horror movies are generally about confronting our fears of death. There’s a lot of overlap, but it’s worth noting that “thrillers” aren’t necessarily “horror movies” either. Will they survive? Will they prove their innocence? Will life ever be the same again? We demand the answers to these questions because, as strange and contrived as situations in a thriller can get, the protagonists closely resemble most of the people in the audience, who don’t seek out danger and worry about what would happen if it befell us anyway. They are typical stories of seemingly normal people, suddenly thrust by circumstance or their own sins into perilous situations.
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That doesn’t mean they all have life-or-death situations, serial killers, and kidnappings in them.īut those are the types of intense, suspenseful situations we come to expect from films with the “thriller” label. After all, a lot of movies want to thrill you. But “thrillers” can be tougher to nail down. Family movies are intended for all audiences. Werewolf movies are movies with werewolves in them.
Some genres are easier to define than others.