Monday, 11 October 2010

The Thriller vs The horror

We have been working with the concept of the thriller and breaking it down, so we can recreate it for our opening sequences. Horrors and Thrillers are both designed to scare their audiences. They are seperate genres but it is hard to have a concrete definition of either, or to decide where a film stops being a horror and starts to be a thriller.
In general, horror films tend to opt for more gore and graphic scenes, and thrillers focus more on tension. However this doesn't stop thriller films from being extremely graphic, like Se7en, which shows some scenes of extreme torture. It also doesn't stop horror films from being extremely tense, like The Excorsist.

Looking at the IMDb list of best horror and thriller films, it seems that horror films tend to be more paranormal or feature monsters and ghosts with films Alien, The Thing and Faust in the Top Ten. Thrillers tend to be much more based on more plausible situations, with films like The Godfather, Pulp Fiction and Rear Window.
There are a lot of films which cross over between the 2 genres, a noted film being Psycho. It is within the Top Ten of both genres. Sometimes it just isn't that easy to define them.

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